AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server
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Re: AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server
#2I looked at Pi-hole recently but went with AdGuard Home. Nicer UI and nicer everything by all appearances. There's also a surprising amount of customization for something this slick, like being able to defer to my internal DNS for local private domain queries, etc.
I'm not entirely sure why AdGuard is giving this away, and maybe I should look into that, but seemed like a relatively low-risk decision to go with this for now. And I can't say enough about how much more pleasant using things like the NYTimes app has been without the obnoxious ads.
Re: AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server
#3I ran a competing project[0] on my home network for a few years before I discovered NextDNS[1]. What I lost in performance (requests don't leave my house) I gained in portability: ALL my devices can take advantage – at home and away – and time-saved. PiHole works 90% of the time, but when it did stop working, I'd have to spend a bit of time fixing it. At $20/year, I simply couldn't compete with NextDNS.
Note: This isn't a shill for NextDNS; I love these kinds of projects and think they absolutely should exist, but NextDNS just happens to be one of those dead-simple SaaS tools that is an insanely good value.
Re: AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server
#4Neat!
Similar: If you happen to run pfsense on your network, check out pfblockerng, I really like it!: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/packages/pfblocke...
Re: AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server
#5> Runs on your OpenWrt box
Where are you seeing that? The only reference to OpenWRT I see is in the "Projects that use AdGuard Home" section which links to a different project.
Otherwise that's a misleading title - this is a PiHole alternative.
Re: AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server
#6I ran a competing project[0] on my home network for a few years before I discovered NextDNS[1]. What I lost in performance (requests don't leave my house) I gained in portability: ALL my devices can take advantage – at home and away – and time-saved. PiHole works 90% of the time, but when it did stop working, I'd have to spend a bit of time fixing it. At $20/year, I simply couldn't compete with NextDNS. Note: This is…
I love NextDNS.
The one (fairly huge) issue that I have is that it cannot handle captive portals when its enabled on my iPhone. So if I'm joining the wifi on a plane, etc, I need to remember to turn it off. This means that I cannot recommend it to my non-technical friends.
Re: AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server
#7I looked at Pi-hole recently but went with AdGuard Home. Nicer UI and nicer everything by all appearances. There's also a surprising amount of customization for something this slick, like being able to defer to my internal DNS for local private domain queries, etc. I'm not entirely sure why AdGuard is giving this away, and maybe I should look into that, but seemed like a relatively low-risk decision to go with this f…
Yes, it’s really awesome. The split-dns feature has all the options you would imagine.
I thought i would need a second dns server behind it, but i could add all the rules I need right into adguard home. It even supports DoT and DoH upstreams, which is still not a thing with many home routers.
Edit: here are the docs: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/wiki/Configuratio...
Re: AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server
#8> Runs on your OpenWrt box Where are you seeing that? The only reference to OpenWRT I see is in the "Projects that use AdGuard Home" section which links to a different project. Otherwise that's a misleading title - this is a PiHole alternative.
It absolutely runs on OpenWrt - simple as opkg install, then setting it up and sorting DNS redirection as needed.
Re: AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server
#9> Runs on your OpenWrt box Where are you seeing that? The only reference to OpenWRT I see is in the "Projects that use AdGuard Home" section which links to a different project. Otherwise that's a misleading title - this is a PiHole alternative.
Re: AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server
#10What’s the difference between this and just using their DNS addresses with the force redirect option enabled?