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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

#11

Post by therealmarv »

JadoJodo wrote: post #3

I 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…

+1 for nextdns definitely, that would be also my preferred choice.

Alternative and free for private usage is to set DNS to:

    dns.adguard-dns.com
on your devices to block ads with DNS.

UPDATE: it seems the old one was dns.adguard.com (which was blocked in some countries)

Re: AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server

#12

Post by winstonprivacy »

Sadly for the AdGuard team, there isn't much of an audience for this. It's one of those things everyone says they want but few people will actually install one, much less maintain one over time. Add to that the wife-forced uninstalls and the total long-term audience for this is (no kidding) in the thousands.

Re: AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server

#13

Post by JulianWasTaken »

JadoJodo wrote: post #3

I 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…

Interesting -- for me pi-hole has worked for so long that I've forgotten my login even, but when I redo my home network in the near future I definitely intend to re-evaluate the options. Sounds like I've got 3 now...

Re: AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server

#14

Post by madduci »

zukzuk wrote: post #2

I 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…

They can expand their user base and when they have acquired a certain amount of people, switch to a licensed model?

Re: AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server

#15

Post by maronato »

drewg123 wrote: post #6
JadoJodo wrote: post #3

I 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.

I’ve been using NextDNS for a little while and don’t remember having issues with captive portals on my iPhone. Maybe something changed?

Re: AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server

#16

Post by breckenedge »

winstonprivacy wrote: post #12

Sadly for the AdGuard team, there isn't much of an audience for this. It's one of those things everyone says they want but few people will actually install one, much less maintain one over time. Add to that the wife-forced uninstalls and the total long-term audience for this is (no kidding) in the thousands.

My spouse’s device is on a pihole exclusion list. Can you not do this with AdGuard?

Re: AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server

#17

Post by greenie_beans »

therealmarv wrote: post #11
JadoJodo wrote: post #3

I 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…

+1 for nextdns definitely, that would be also my preferred choice. Alternative and free for private usage is to set DNS to: dns.adguard-dns.com on your devices to block ads with DNS. UPDATE: it seems the old one was dns.adguard.com (which was blocked in some countries)

omg, thank youuuu

Re: AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server

#19

Post by Naac »

Anyone know of an Adguard home or pihole equivalent service I can run as part of OPNSense?

I currently have a different machine dedicated to pihole, but it would be intriguing to have something built in. I would imagine split DNS and firewall rules would be simpler this way.

Re: AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server

#20

Post by dizhn »

winstonprivacy wrote: post #12

Sadly for the AdGuard team, there isn't much of an audience for this. It's one of those things everyone says they want but few people will actually install one, much less maintain one over time. Add to that the wife-forced uninstalls and the total long-term audience for this is (no kidding) in the thousands.

I don't get this comment. It is basically the same kind of tool as the Pihole only much easier to install and maintain. (It's a single go binary) Isn't this a popular class of software?
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