February 2026 (2026-02) – AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters. Delivered privacy, UX, and anti-ad features with targeted reliability improvements across key sites, translating ongoing work into measurable business value and a stronger blocking posture. Key outcomes: - Privacy: Implemented a rule to remove tracking URL parameters, reducing data leakage and improving user privacy. - Site-level UX: Added rules to remove banners/unwanted elements for trial-net.co.jp, privatter.me, and general UI refinements, enhancing user experience and engagement. - Ad-blocking coverage: Expanded rules for pvpoke-re.com, japscan.vip, and tver.jp, and extended adserver filters to block ad-virtua.net, strengthening blocking capabilities across ecosystems. Quality and reliability: - Targeted fixes and rule refinements to reduce edge-case false positives and improve reproducibility on tricky cases (e.g., trial-net.co.jp, x.com status-related cases), evidenced by focused commits. Overall impact: - Improved privacy protection, cleaner user experiences, and stronger ad-blocking coverage, contributing to higher user satisfaction and trust while enabling safer browsing across a broader set of sites.

January 2026 monthly summary for AdguardFilters focused on expanding blocking coverage, hardening domain filtering, and stabilizing the rule set across the AdGuardFilters repository. Notable activity includes extensive domain rule updates, new ad-network domain entries, and platform hygiene improvements that together reduced false positives, improved user protection, and simplified ongoing maintenance.

December 2025 monthly summary for AdGuardFilters (AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters). The month focused on expanding external domain and tracker source coverage, refining blocklists, and stabilizing rule sets across a broad set of domains and ad networks to improve protection accuracy and performance. Notable activity includes data-source enrichment, new EasyList integrations, targeted domain mappings, and comprehensive bug fixes across critical sites.

November 2025 monthly summary for easylist/easylist. Focused on privacy and ad-blocking enhancements that deliver measurable business value: reducing user exposure to trackers, improving browsing performance, and maintaining rule stability across international domains.

Month: 2025-10 recap for the developer team. Delivered substantial feature updates and bug fixes across three repositories (uBlockOrigin/uAssets, AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters, and easylist/easylist), with a focus on business value through upstream alignment, expanded coverage, and data quality. Key outcomes include upstream synchronization with AdGuardFilters for issue 199124 and related commits, broader dataset enhancements (HTA, CHP/deblocker, JManga, external sources), and cross-repo improvements to robustness and performance. Implemented anti-adblock/anti-abuse handling fixes, plus targeted cleanup of obsolete/duplicate rules to improve maintainability and reduce diffs in future releases. Enabled better network deployments and partner-site coverage through MV3-compatible rule adjustments and expanded third-party rule integration.

September 2025 focused on data quality, platform modernization, and broader blocking coverage to reduce ad-friction and risk, delivering measurable business value. Key accomplishments include (1) JapScan.si batch 2 data updates and wildcard compatibility fixes across japscan.si and eropasture.com improving data accuracy and blocking reliability; (2) migration to the JPF platform for project/assets enabling MV3 compatibility, plus GTM integration and Matomo privacy updates for regulatory/compliance readiness; (3) upstream synchronization and governance, keeping local AdGuardFilters/uAssets in lockstep with upstream changes and updating references; (4) expanded ad-network coverage with Adsterra plugin integration and broader PopAds and Clickadu reinjection rules across multiple sites; (5) domain hygiene and maintenance, removing dead/obsolete domains and cleaning up rules/UI to reduce maintenance overhead.

August 2025 monthly summary for AdguardFilters and uAssets highlighting key business-value outcomes and technical achievements. Delivered extensive domain updates, feature deployments, and bug fixes across both repositories with emphasis on blocking accuracy, external domain coverage, MV3 compatibility, privacy/compliance, and maintainability. The month included batch domain updates for numerous external sites (e.g., kakuyomu.jp, lv73.net, japscan.si, facebook.com, filemoon, l455o.com), NSFW/PopAds and ad-script updates, and integration with EasyList, while cleaning up dead/risky domains and applying targeted fixes to phishing blocks and redirects.

July 2025 monthly summary for uAssets and AdguardFilters focusing on strengthening blocking coverage, system reliability, and data hygiene. Delivered feature-rich updates tied to high-signal issues, hash- and URL-based rule refreshes, and broader policy coverage (EL/CHP/PA/HTA). Implemented domain maintenance improvements to reduce false positives and maintenance overhead, and performed stability hardening through deblocker enhancements and safe-eval safeguards. The work improved protection quality, maintainability, and traceability across two critical repositories, enabling faster iteration and safer user experiences.

June 2025 performance summary for uAssets and AdGuardSDNSFilter: delivered significant feature updates and essential bug fixes across multiple repos, with an emphasis on improving blocklist accuracy, stability, and upstream alignment. Key features expanded protection coverage and maintainability (Adcrap updates; regional list migration; PopAds/HTA/ CHP integrations; EL references and upstream synchronization; deblocker/HTA/CHP integrations), while major bugs and test-related issues were resolved to strengthen reliability and user experience (test fixes, Kungfutv popup, deny/allow fixes for vjav.tube, AdGuardFilters ticket-related fixes, and cleanup of obsolete entries). Monthly maintenance included performance improvements (speed up G ads countdown) and comprehensive data/reference updates to sustain long-term effectiveness.

May 2025 – uAssets: Delivered important feature updates and critical bug fixes across the AdGuard/uAssets rule sets, with a focus on blocking accuracy, maintainability, and alignment with upstream. Key features include updates to the Adcrap filter (domain migrations and consistency with uBOL), URLScan reference integration updates, and the introduction of a generic lockdown rule plus GTM-related detection blocking. A migration of modules/components to the EP framework was completed to improve modularity and deployment efficiency while maintaining performance. Major bug fixes encompassed dead-domain removals, address-related fixes (Any.run task page), and patches addressing multiple AdGuardFilters issues (23806, 204538, 199124, 206071, 205018, 205817, 205830) along with routine quick fixes and cleanup. The work also includes upstream synchronization (EasyList), regional and badware list updates, and comprehensive cleanup to reduce maintenance overhead and stale references.

April 2025 — uAssets monthly summary focused on business value, reliability, and coverage expansion. Key deliveries include extensive external filter list updates and synchronization across major lists, targeted improvements to reduce conflicts, and domain hygiene refinements, all while maintaining upstream alignment and expanding coverage to new sites and configurations. Key features delivered and improvements: - External filter list updates and synchronization across EasyList, HilltopAds, Badware, Adcrap, and AdGuardFilters; applied updates related to issue #23806. - Feature enhancements and integrations: AA rule to prevent conflicts; HilltopAds-sites integration; Zone-telechargement.tv filter update; Upstream uAssets maintenance and reinstatements. - Coverage expansion: pM/PopAds integration (including javbee.vip) with new domain support; javring.com integration into PM; FM module addition; HTA/PM component updates; domain-level blocking improvements (nukibooks, nukibooks.com) and regional list fixes. - Domain hygiene and risk reduction: removal of dead/obsolete domains (including livejasmin.es), NSFW ad fix on nukibooks, and general cleanup (obsolete items, quick fixes). - Upstream alignment and maintenance: reinstate and synchronize upstream commits, update last-commit pointers, and maintain consistency across modules for smoother releases.

March 2025 (2025-03) monthly summary for uAssets: Delivered a mix of core repository housekeeping, upstream-aligned rule maintenance, and targeted feature improvements that enhance blocking accuracy, maintenance efficiency, and security posture. The work spans multiple upstream collaborations (EasyList and AdGuardFilters) and internal UI/data hygiene across domain lists and filters management.

February 2025 monthly summary for uAssets (uBlockOrigin) and AdGuardSDNSFilter. Focused on delivering currency with upstream lists, expanding rule coverage, and applying maintenance patches across multiple domains to improve accuracy and performance. Business value delivered includes up-to-date filtering rules, reduced false positives, and improved alignment with upstream developers and external lists, enabling faster response to issues and fewer blocking regressions.

January 2025 performance summary for uBlockOrigin/uAssets focused on core stability, security hardening, data hygiene, and workflow improvements. Delivered a coordinated batch of updates tied to issue #23806 across core assets with a controlled revert to preserve compatibility and reduce risk. Strengthened badware and adcrap defenses through updates to badware data collection and malware rules. Performed comprehensive data hygiene work, including dead domain cleanup and obsolete data cleanup, plus addressing external issues 196657 and 156165 to improve data accuracy. Added workflow enhancements (copy quick to regular) and updated FileMoon entry to improve maintenance efficiency. Resolved anti-adblock checks in external resources and addressed Adcrap reinjection, reducing exposure to malicious injections. Included small polish changes (minor edit, typo fix) and removal of a redundant rule to prevent conflicts. This combination improves security, data integrity, user workflow, and overall product reliability.