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AdGuard: the better Ad Muncher?
mwb1100:
On one hand it is annoying that AM does not filter https, on the other hand from what I understand, AdGuard does it by installing its own certificate and doing a man in the middle on all your https connections, and I don't know how I feel about that.
-Jibz (September 01, 2014, 12:03 PM)
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I believe that's the only way to do it via a proxy. The only other option would be to do it inside the browser.
Either way you're giving the ad removal software the ability to deal with data that is ostensibly private, so you have to give that software some measure of trust if you want it to remove ads from HTTPS connections. I'm not sure sure which method might make things more vulnerable to other malicious software that might want to exploit the ad removal software's position of trust.
My gut feeling is that it's the proxy with the MITM certificate, but that's just a feeling.
Does anyone know if AdGuard allows you to disable this behavior of proxying HTTPS traffic? I'm currently using Ad Muncher and I don't have any complaints about HTTPS connections having too many ads. However, I think I'm seeing the writing on the wall for AM, so I figure that I'll be moving to something else at some point and I'd rather that my HTTPS traffic just be left alone since I'm not seeing a problem with it.
Tuxman:
Yes, AdGuard needs to intercept HTTPS, that's why using the Android version is a bit dangerous...
Josh:
It is the same way MiTM is conducted on firewall appliances like Palo Alto or A10's thunder series. You have to do some form of MiTM to sniff SSL traffic.
40hz:
I understand, AdGuard does it by installing its own certificate and doing a man in the middle on all your https connections, and I don't know how I feel about that.
-Jibz (September 01, 2014, 12:03 PM)
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This.
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" still applies. 8)
J-Mac:
YouTube's ads alone have me wanting some sort of https ad control.
Jim
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