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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

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Post by nickthegreek »

JulianWasTaken wrote: post #13
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...

you are gonna want to do a 'pihole -up' every few months. I would suggest finding that password!

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

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Post by sn0wf1re »

rpnx wrote: post #25

Don't do this. Network firewalls are harmful. Let people configure their own firewalls on device. Having to VPN around network blocks is annoying to say the least. Network firewalls are harmful and just a lazy excuse for bad client security.

It isn't a firewall, it's a DNS server that returns fake results for entries in its blocklist.

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

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Post by bityard »

Naac wrote: post #19

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.

I'm in the process of migrating my OPNSense to a virtual machine so that I can run whatever network-related services I want right along side it in a container or VM. I used to scoff at those enterprising homelabbers who apparently stuck their firewall in a VM just because they could but I get it now. It's super nice to be able to just snapshot and back up the whole VM, and run whatever you want alongside it. (Although I will limit the box to specific network management things like AdGuard Home.)

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

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Post by nickthegreek »

dizhn wrote: post #20
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?

It is not a popular class of software to the masses, it is a popular class of software to a niche audience. I don't share as pessimistic attitude as OP though. I'm pretty sure the audience is in the tens of thousands!

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

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Post by mnt3 »

vosper wrote: post #32

What does this break, if anything? Anyone run into sites or apps where Adguard Home needed to be disabled? How easy was that?

Depends on the blocklists you're using. I broke Google search sponsored links, some Slickdeals links, and the meta quest app store. You have the ability to whitelist as well if you want to unblock some things.

I'm running it in a docker container and then pointing my router at it.

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

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Post by masfuerte »

cricalix wrote: post #8
politelemon wrote: post #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.

It absolutely runs on OpenWrt - simple as opkg install, then setting it up and sorting DNS redirection as needed.

Yes, but the title suggests that OpenWrt is the only place it runs. Which is misleading.

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

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Post by mrbonner »

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 paid for NextDNS back in 2020 but discontinue the following year due to services such as streaming from PBS app and websites not working properly. I knew this maybe related to aggressive blocking DNS but I wasn't having the time to investigate. I have no complain about NextDNS. Their service works and pricing is fine. I just use Adguard premium now and have no issue for a year.

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

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Post by cycomanic »

Naac wrote: post #19

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.

Adguard runs directly on opnsense.

https://0x2142.com/how-to-set-up-adguard-on-opnsense/

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

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Post by i2shar »

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…

Haven’t used NextDNS but have used PiHole and currently running AdGuard Home. But if you are paying $20/year just for DNS encryption/blocking, you may consider upgrading to Mullvad which gives you DNS Ad blocking but also IP anonymity, tunneling etc.
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