AdGuard

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2018–2025), in 9 threads.

People raised many different problems with AdGuard, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 9 complaints

Updating filter rules is miserable and slow2025-08-05
Must manually enable many Safari settings after installing, with unclear steps2024-10-04
Blocking cookie popups leaves pages unscrollable, forcing disable-and-retry each time2023-10-13
Has to repeat a setup dance every time the page reloads2023-02-24
Scrolling feels non-native and awkward to the user2022-08-30
Setup info and settings links only appear on row hover, hidden behind app install2022-03-16
AdGuard's UI is far less polished than uBlock Origin's2022-02-11
Whitelisting a site requires opening the app and manually typing domains2021-04-10
Captive portals fail to load, so users must manually toggle DNS settings2018-12-31