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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 sitzkrieg »

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 switched to nextdns all in a handful of months ago and mostly recommend it too

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

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Post by RulerOf »

foxylad wrote: post #167
RulerOf wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm curious what issues you ran into with Pi-hole? My primary problem with Pi-hole or any other DNS-based blocker is that it silently breaks things. YouTube stopped saving my spot in videos. I couldn't click through on any link that involved a tracking service. These things accomplish their stated task well, but leave behind an insidious trail of browser errors, broken pages, and broken apps without ever indicating…

Odd - I have a pi-hole on my home network and never hit the issue with YouTube. The only breakage I've found is the top "results" (actually sponsored ads) on Google search don't work, but I always scroll past those anyway to discourage bad behaviour. In fact pi-hole works so well that I'm always struck by how awful the internet has become when I venture away from my home network. Doctorow's enshitification in action.

The YouTube thing was what turned me on to Pi-Hole's list of commonly-whitelisted domains[1], but even after adding it, the experience of things breaking was just ultimately too frustrating to keep using it.

It's really an issue with feedback, though. When my ad blocker breaks a page, it says that it blocked something. When pi-hole breaks a page, it just appears to be broken.

1: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/commonly-whitelisted-domains...

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

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Post by RulerOf »

jethro_tell wrote: post #163
RulerOf wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm curious what issues you ran into with Pi-hole? My primary problem with Pi-hole or any other DNS-based blocker is that it silently breaks things. YouTube stopped saving my spot in videos. I couldn't click through on any link that involved a tracking service. These things accomplish their stated task well, but leave behind an insidious trail of browser errors, broken pages, and broken apps without ever indicating…

Is this an issue that next dns fixes for you?

Never used it, but I wouldn't expect it to, assuming it works the same way.

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

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Post by teruakohatu »

stzsch wrote: post #91

I got my glinet gl-axt1800 mainly for the adguard support out of the box, as a way to keep my smart tv experience sane. Works pretty well.

Are there allow lists for services such as Apple TV. Do smart tvs not fall back to hardcoded ipv4 addresses?

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

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Post by Rastonbury »

RulerOf wrote: post #160
evanreichard wrote: post #68

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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.

> I'm curious what issues you ran into with Pi-hole? My primary problem with Pi-hole or any other DNS-based blocker is that it silently breaks things. YouTube stopped saving my spot in videos. I couldn't click through on any link that involved a tracking service. These things accomplish their stated task well, but leave behind an insidious trail of browser errors, broken pages, and broken apps without ever indicating…

It must be the lists in pihole or something, I don't get any of those issues with NextDNS, if anything Ublock breaks sites before it does

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

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Post by Rastonbury »

ThePowerOfFuet wrote: post #65
i2shar wrote: post #50

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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.

Not familiar with pihole but are there not ways to do those things on it?

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

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Post by stupidog »

theshrike79 wrote: post #141
evanreichard wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

SD card corruption that just slowly started degrading the results, twice. For the price of a single Pi, I can get NextDNS ad protection for _all_ my devices for multiple years. No matter where they are.

Same here. After a few SD Card corruptions, I was done.

NextDNS has been fantastic. And like you said, easily portable.

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

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Post by Brajeshwar »

NL807 wrote: post #172

How effective is AdGuard against YouTube ads? Pi-Hole doesn't work as its filtering is at the DNS level, I suspect AdGuard has the same issues?

AdGuard blocks at the client level, so it works (so far) as far as I tested in the last couple of weeks (with a non-premium account).

Disclaimer: YouTube is still very affordable in India, our family subscribe to the YouTube Premium.

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