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Re:macOS Big Sur by saagarjha on Thursday November 12, 2020 @04:35PM (#25075410)
It doesn't, the Adguard developers just chose to write their app in such a way that their main app (which is an Electron app) needs to be in the loop for everything.
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Re:macOS Big Sur by mthoms on Thursday November 12, 2020 @06:28PM (#25076746)
Actually it's true - Adguard needs to run as a standalone process that lives in the menu bar in order to work properly with Safari. This permanent process does appear to be Electron based.

My guess is that it's engineered like this to simplify their code base(s) between their various free plugins and their paid "Adguard for Mac" and "Adguard for Windows" apps.

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