Daria Magdik

ABDS (ex AFDS) is officially happening, and this time we bring it to Copenhagen. Join is on November 3-4!

Modified version of the presentation originally delivered at the Ad-Filtering Dev Summit 2025 (AFDS) by Elizaveta Egorova and Dávid Tóta, developers at AdGuard

Techlore team caught up with members of the AdGuard team at the Ad-Filtering Dev Summit 2025 for a short on-the-spot interview.

Let’s revisit the major highlights of this year’s summit — proudly co-organized with Ghostery and eyeo.

While the headlines focus on publishers and alleged copyright violations, the bigger story is what this means for millions of ordinary users.

The call for papers for the 2025 Ad-Filtering Dev Summit will close in a week — so if you’ve been thinking about submitting an idea, now’s the time. Whether you plan to speak or just want to attend, please take a moment to register — it’ll help us a lot.

Last November it was found out that tested air fryers requested permission to record audio on the user's phone without offering any explanation why...

Amazon has removed the "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" option for several Echo devices. This change means that all voice commands — and effectively everything your Echo hears — will now be transmitted to and processed in Amazon’s cloud.

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In February 2025, GitLab Threat Intelligence team identified at least 16 malicious Chrome extensions affecting over 3.2 million users. These extensions used to be legit, installed through official browser stores from the trusted developers, but were later corrupted via malicious ‘updates’.