Unbeatable AdGuard family plan: Secure all devices for A$25

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TL;DR: Block ads and prevent contact with malware on family devices with an A$25 AdGuard lifetime subscription.
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AdGuard Family Plan: Lifetime Subscription
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Set the scene: It's dinner time, and the kids are working on homework. You want to scroll through a recipe blog on your phone to whip something up. One kid needs your laptop to do some science class research.
This could quickly become a digital quagmire where you can't make it through the recipe without another video popping up on screen, and the kids accidentally download malware on your work laptop while researching treefrogs. Or you could use AdGuard and clean up your family's browsing experience for just A$25 with code FAMPLAN for lifetime access.
AdGuard steps in online when you can't be there. It protects your family with advanced ad-blocking, privacy protection tools, and parental control settings. When you reduce exposure to harmful ads or malicious links with this lifetime access to AdGuard, you'll be able to:
Eliminate banners, pop-ups, and disruptive video ads to streamline browsing
Hide your data from trackers or activity analyzers as you use the internet
Prevent malware and phishing sites
Restrict access to inappropriate or adult content for kids' devices
You can use AdGuard on up to nine devices. It works across Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. On each device, you can access clutter-free websites and prevent accidental encounters with malware.
Your kids are growing up, and you can't look over their shoulders every second. But you can still protect them from digital threats — from the annoying to the malicious — when you use AdGuard across all your family devices. Get lifetime access to this privacy-protecting ad blocker for A$25 (reg. A$266) with code FAMPLAN.
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