AdGuard is a Russian company, with Russian engineers, the majority of AdGuard developers and other employees working from Moscow, registered in Cyprus. Not a great recipe. Hard pass on security grounds.
MacPaw lists Russian-developed software as a risk because the government can access your data at any time — this is self-hosted open-source software though.
The FSB can’t just access your local server with an arbitrary court order.
Therefore this doesn’t feel like a legitimate concern but more like Russophobia, which I understand but also think is utterly unasked for as I know first hand how much Russian developers are suffering from the stupidity of their government.
Technically, yes you can. But do you really have the time to sit down to understand a piece of software enough to know if it's doing anything nefarious?
True. But I think they have the means to do that on a lot of (non-russia-associated) repositories. They even probably wouldn't pick this one because it's under too much scrutiny.
