Add 'Disable Statistics' shortcut to the Home Dashboard or General Settings.

[CoolCoolWind]

Issue Details

Currently, in AdGuard for Android,the app automatically logs all web requests in the "Recent Activitiy"and "Assistant in the notifaction" section and compiles "Statistics" by default. While this is helpful for debugging, it creates a local privacy "leak" where a history of every website visited is stored on the device and able to read freely.

Users like me who share devices and also highly privacy-conscious currently have no way to prevent this data from being recorded in the first place; we can only manually clear it.

Proposed solution

I would like a "Incognito Mode" within the Statistics settings as what the Adguard 3.6 that allows users to:

Disable Recent Activity Logging: Stop the app from writing the last 10,000 requests to the local database.

Disable Statistics Gathering: Prevent the app from tracking which website the user visited.

Toggle via Quick Settings: Ideally, a way to pause logging directly from the Android notification shade (the Assistant menu).
I totally understand that statics function help users to figure out the advertisement they add into the filter, but can I switch off this function when everything is fine?

Alternative solution

No response

[CoolCoolWind]

Btw, when user click clear the statistics data, will the record like data usage, request number removed or just simply the website i visit?

[Lwb828]

The potential for privacy leaks caused by logging features is indeed a valid concern. So, is there a way to balance your needs with the necessity of keeping logs?

I actually mentioned this in some suggestions before: we could limit AdGuard's logging not just by quantity, but by time—implementing a time-based retention policy. For instance, logs could be retained for set durations like 1, 3, 5, 12, or 24 hours, with compression occurring every hour. Anything older than the set timeframe would be deleted. This ensures we have enough data for debugging while keeping the logs精简 (concise).

But how else can we optimize this? Oh, right—I just remembered AdGuard's "black-box mode." In fact, AdGuard already uses a similar approach for its DNS cache; it doesn't expose cached DNS responses to the user and operates under strict constraints.

Since AdGuard has this capability, we could implement a black-box mode for logs that requires a specific "black-box password" to access. AdGuard could randomly generate an encryption key, which the user could then save in a folder, a specific file, or even hidden in notes—somewhere inconspicuous.

This approach would satisfy the need for debugging logs while strictly protecting the privacy of users like you. However, the downside is obvious: if the password or key is ever compromised, it could lead to a privacy leak.

[ESurina]

Btw, when user click clear the statistics data, will the record like data usage, request number removed or just simply the website i visit?

Yes, data usage and request number will be removed.

[ESurina]

Duplicate of #4798