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AdGuard is a Russian company, with Russian engineers, the majority of AdGuard developers and other employees working from Moscow, registered in Cyprus. Not a great recipe. Hard pass on security grounds.
and your macbook was built in china. uh oh
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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/common…
Still, these problems are so small compared to the value I get out of my PiHoles. Blocking ads for years on end while having troubles maybe 3-4 times in total. All the other time it just works.
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...
Other than this problem, Pi-Hole has always been great
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> PiHole works 90% of the time, but when it did stop working, I'd have to spend a bit of time fixing it. I don't know what problems you had with your Pi that resulted in 10% downtime, but that sort of hyperbole sounds a lot like shilling. Cases of SD card corruption are 99.9% due to the use of underpowered power supplies - just buy the official Raspberry Pi power supply if you can be bothered to search for a proper 2…
Don’t want to jinx it but I’ve been running a pihole on a RPi 3 for a really long time - at least 6-7 years and the only thing I’ve had to do is an occasional upgrade. I like the convenience and the fact that I’m blocking about 4M domains. My TV is also forced to use it so ads don’t update on Android TV. Not sure if NextDNS supports custom domain lists or not.
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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 did have several issues with adguard home, after some time (or packets?) the dns wouldn’t resolve and basically you can’t open any website, you can ping with no issues but not opening the site, only resolved by either restarting the server or waiting few minutes, didn’t bother to troubleshoot it but I tried it on several hardware and got the same issues with different interruptions time.
AdGuard is a Russian company, with Russian engineers, the majority of AdGuard developers and other employees working from Moscow, registered in Cyprus. Not a great recipe. Hard pass on security grounds.
MacPaw lists Russian-developed software as a risk because the government can access your data at any time — this is self-hosted open-source software though.
The FSB can’t just access your local server with an arbitrary court order.
Therefore this doesn’t feel like a legitimate concern but more like Russophobia, which I understand but also think is utterly unasked for as I know first hand how much Russian developers are suffering from the stupidity of their government.
AdGuard is a Russian company, with Russian engineers, the majority of AdGuard developers and other employees working from Moscow, registered in Cyprus. Not a great recipe. Hard pass on security grounds.
It’s open source software. MacPaw lists Russian-developed software as a risk because the government can access your data at any time — this is self-hosted open-source software though. The FSB can’t just access your local server with an arbitrary court order. Therefore this doesn’t feel like a legitimate concern but more like Russophobia, which I understand but also think is utterly unasked for as I know first hand ho…
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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.
Running pihole on a Pi is severely overrated. I run it on my NAS Linux server (in a Docker container) where I have a bunch of other things. Zero problems, now using it for more than two years.
Most likely it can be made to work, but I have more money than time to spend on faffing about with stuff that should Just Work, so I threw $10 at NextDNS which solved all my issues instantly :)
Unsure if anyone here uses Technitium DNS(Opensource and free). It works on minimal hardware. I am running it on an Orange Pi 3 LTS. https://technitium.com/dns/
This looks great. Qs: this says “ Technitium DNS Server is an open source authoritative as well as recursive DNS server” Are pi-hole/Adgyard also recursive DNS server or just a blockers? Edit: I’ve been using pi-hole for ages, trying to figure out if this has any advantage.
PiHole isn't natively recursive, but you can easily set up a service alongside pihole on the pi (or in another docker, if your pihole is a container) called Unbound which provides recursive DNS.
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Running pihole on a Pi is severely overrated. I run it on my NAS Linux server (in a Docker container) where I have a bunch of other things. Zero problems, now using it for more than two years.
I tried that too, but the Pi needs to be bridged to the network for it to show up properly and that caused issues with docker containers not being able to access it properly. Most likely it can be made to work, but I have more money than time to spend on faffing about with stuff that should Just Work, so I threw $10 at NextDNS which solved all my issues instantly :)