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I’ve had AdGuard Home running on a raspberry pie for about a year, and it’s great. It’s basically a set & forget system, meaning you almost never have to visit

by eiiot 4y ago

I’ve had AdGuard Home running on a raspberry pie for about a year, and it’s great. It’s basically a set & forget system, meaning you almost never have to visit the dashboard unless you want to whitelist or blacklist a site. And, I’ve found it to be reasonably effective for blocking ads where ad-blockers can’t, at least on iOS

bippingchip 4y ago
I can confirm. Set and forget all the way. Works very well on iOs and also on Samsung smartTV (those are evil without some form of Adblock!) Hardest part for me in the set up was that ad guard should query my router for local domain, because that one keeps track of which dhcp IP address is owned by which host. (This way I can always use host names on my internal network even for devices that get an address via dhcp. Very convenient if you play with Pi Zero and other toys)
mattrighetti 4y ago
I've used both, and I have found AdGuard Home to be slightly more reliable. These are the major things that made me switch to AGH: 1. Incredibly fast and easy to install compared to pi-hole 2. It's easier to update because you don't have to ssh into the raspberry, you can just update the thing through the user interface. 3. From time to time, it happened that the pi-hole hanged up, dns resolution did not work and I needed to reboot the thing to make it work again. I am not sure how widespread this is but I've seen many other users complain about this particular issue (even though it's a once-per-month thing). (4. Better APIs) For an in-depth comparison between the two you can take a look at the AGH GitHub Page[0] [0]: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome#comparison-pi-hole https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome#comparison-pi-hol...
JKCalhoun 4y ago
I can't figure out from their site if it is free or do you need a registration key for it to be able to access their white/black lists?
- anthropodie 4y ago
  AdGuardHome is free but AdGuard is not. What you are looking for is https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome
GeekyBear 4y ago
There are several public DNS servers that have block list functionality built in. This has the advantage of working on any kind of device that allows you to manually specify a DNS server IP address, without having to install or maintain software. For example, AdGuard maintains public DNS server IP Address options that: filter nothing, filter out ads and trackers, or filter out ads, trackers and adult content. https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html

by eiiot 4y ago

bippingchip 4y ago

I can confirm. Set and forget all the way. Works very well on iOs and also on Samsung smartTV (those are evil without some form of Adblock!) Hardest part for me in the set up was that ad guard should query my router for local domain, because that one keeps track of which dhcp IP address is owned by which host. (This way I can always use host names on my internal network even for devices that get an address via dhcp. Very convenient if you play with Pi Zero and other toys)

mattrighetti 4y ago

I've used both, and I have found AdGuard Home to be slightly more reliable. These are the major things that made me switch to AGH: 1. Incredibly fast and easy to install compared to pi-hole 2. It's easier to update because you don't have to ssh into the raspberry, you can just update the thing through the user interface. 3. From time to time, it happened that the pi-hole hanged up, dns resolution did not work and I needed to reboot the thing to make it work again. I am not sure how widespread this is but I've seen many other users complain about this particular issue (even though it's a once-per-month thing). (4. Better APIs) For an in-depth comparison between the two you can take a look at the AGH GitHub Page[0] [0]: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome#comparison-pi-hole https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome#comparison-pi-hol...

JKCalhoun 4y ago

I can't figure out from their site if it is free or do you need a registration key for it to be able to access their white/black lists?

anthropodie 4y ago
AdGuardHome is free but AdGuard is not. What you are looking for is https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

GeekyBear 4y ago

There are several public DNS servers that have block list functionality built in. This has the advantage of working on any kind of device that allows you to manually specify a DNS server IP address, without having to install or maintain software. For example, AdGuard maintains public DNS server IP Address options that: filter nothing, filter out ads and trackers, or filter out ads, trackers and adult content. https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html