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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 theshrike79 »

evanreichard wrote: post #68
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.

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.

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

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Post by FuriouslyAdrift »

ittan wrote: post #34

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/

I've been using it for years and love it. .Net based, so it is cross platform, too! There's a docker image if you want to go that route.

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

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Post by mianos »

ittan wrote: post #34

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/

And you can load the ad blocking lists into anyway so you get solid DNS, ad blocking and none of those random youtube spinners from rando dns issues. For nothing but a little configuration.

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

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Post by throwaway742 »

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.

Just run it in a container. No need to use an actual Pi.

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

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Post by evanreichard »

nkrisc wrote: post #134
evanreichard wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can empathize with the sometimes aggressive blocking, and as you pointed out can be pretty block list dependent. I generally will go in and whitelist things if a site breaks due to a DNS block, but of course putting your partner on the same VLAN can be problematic. I "got around" that by having a button in Home Assistant that will completely turn off Pi-hole (and now AdGuard). So my partner will go in and toggle th…

I had similar issues and the problem with a white list is it can be very difficult to figure exactly which cryptic subdomain of some major company is necessary for the service to work, without just allowing everything and defeating the purpose .

Yeah - I usually watch the network tab in debugging tools to figure out whats being blocked, then whitelist and try again.

I also realize that you shouldn't expect most people to do that, let alone know how to.

I am someone who is very aggressively anti-ad.

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

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Post by throwaway742 »

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…

Does AdGuard support regex matching?

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

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Post by yumraj »

ittan wrote: post #34

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.

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

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Post by boringuser2 »

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…

One of the major reasons why I don't use or recommend NextDNS is because they force you to use their DNS resolver when a DNS resolver like Quad9 has vastly superior threat intelligence.

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

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Post by fetzu »

screamingninja wrote: post #118
oceanplexian wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except all of these third party VPN and DNS type services are literally NSA honeypots and privacy nightmares. I get that you have to do DNS lookups somewhere, but I'm not going to make it ridiculously trivial for a bad actor to scoop up all that data conveniently in a central location.

>> consider upgrading to Mullvad > all of these third party VPN and DNS type services are literally NSA honeypots https://mullvad.net/en/help/privacy-policy It is up to you to decide what you believe, but Mullvad is a swiss company that does not ask for your personal information for signup and even allows payment in cash. You hurt your own credibility each time you make an unqualified claim without looking into it.

It is in fact a Swedish (and not a Swiss) company.

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

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Post by tills13 »

seanieb wrote: post #137

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 you can verify it yourself.
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