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Hate to ask this, but, I've become jaded. Who is behind this software and what's their motivation for it? PiHole is very simple in that regard, it was created
by AdamJacobMuller 3y ago
Hate to ask this, but, I've become jaded.
Who is behind this software and what's their motivation for it?
PiHole is very simple in that regard, it was created by some dude to fill a niche and has grown into a reasonably robust community which should be reasonably resilient to outside attacks (someone sneaking in a change which adds a "feature" which exfiltrates and sells my data).
AdGuard also is a very known company with an obvious motive, to sell you their software, but they've been around a long time and are widely used and seem relatively harmless.
I'm sure I'm a cynic at this point, but, I feel like I need to know who these guys are and why they are willing to invest in this.
- lfmunoz4 3y agoIf you look at sponsors that might answer your question. Someone is using the software in their product and making money so they would sponsor the developers, probably nothing more to it than that. Think open source can be a way for multiple companies to pull their resources and build software that they both need.
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- autoexec 3y agoIt's good to be skeptical, but we should also welcome newcomers since that provides resiliency in cases where well established options shutdown or get subverted themselves. I might not run this on my own network personally, but it seems worth keeping an eye on. It's good having options, especially open source options. This project may even result in improvements being made to PiHole or AdGuard!