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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 lnxg33k1 »

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 also switched from pihole, because of the random disservice, I’d have it working, the suddently it would just stop, without changing anything, and even having it in their own docker container, unbelievable, I am quite happy with adguardhome, but now I kinda would try this nextdns

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

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Post by jraph »

breckenedge wrote: post #53
jraph wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the reason for someone in the network to not want the filtering? Does this break some websites? My own devices are covered, I definitely want full filtering even when not at home and my devices are completely hackable, but I'm wondering if such a tool would be a convenience for other people using the network in particular with less hackable devices, and people likely to use my network are likely totally unint…

Yes, it breaks some websites and apps that they use for work. My pihole also only runs on my “private” network, the “guest” network is not filtered. Apple’s Private Relay also does not work behind a pihole.

Okay thanks! I guess I'm not in the target of these things.

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

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Post by hsshah »

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…

Have you looked into their privacy/data collection policies?

Generally prefer local solutions but gave up on Pi-hole some time back after recurring issues. Currently using client-specific adguard; however the centralized management with nextdns is enticing.

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

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Post by ThePowerOfFuet »

i2shar wrote: post #50
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.

The two are not the same; with NextDNS I can choose to enable logging and see all requests from each device, as well as allowlist/denylist any domain/subdomain I want.

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

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Post by rockooooo »

jraph wrote: post #51
breckenedge wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

What is the reason for someone in the network to not want the filtering? Does this break some websites? My own devices are covered, I definitely want full filtering even when not at home and my devices are completely hackable, but I'm wondering if such a tool would be a convenience for other people using the network in particular with less hackable devices, and people likely to use my network are likely totally unint…

It breaks a lot of websites, I used NextDNS for about two years but got tired of the headaches.

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

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Post by syslog »

breckenedge wrote: post #53
jraph wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the reason for someone in the network to not want the filtering? Does this break some websites? My own devices are covered, I definitely want full filtering even when not at home and my devices are completely hackable, but I'm wondering if such a tool would be a convenience for other people using the network in particular with less hackable devices, and people likely to use my network are likely totally unint…

Yes, it breaks some websites and apps that they use for work. My pihole also only runs on my “private” network, the “guest” network is not filtered. Apple’s Private Relay also does not work behind a pihole.

Private Relay does work, but it circumvents the Pihole (so no adblocking).

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

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Post by evanreichard »

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'm curious what issues you ran into with Pi-hole? I was running my instance for years without a single hiccup. I ended up moving to AdGuard Home about a year ago though because I wanted to run it on my OPNSense box.

I have an automatic WireGuard VPN set up on my devices to VPN into my home network when I'm not connected to my SSID, so my local DNS still works remotely.

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