submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

Hey, not sure if this is the right community, but looking for some information.

I've seen many people strongly recommend AdGuard Home for network-wide ad-blocking either in isolation, or in direct comparison to Pihole. But I can't really find why there is such a strong recommendation. The only clear reason I've seen is that AdGuard is easier to set-up.

However, I already have Pihole set-up on all of my networks on separate Raspberry Pis at each location. I have it running as the DNS server so that every device that connects to the network automatically gets ad-blocking. I have a few groups set-up within Pihole for slightly nuanced blocking


i.e. some of my family still want to use Facebook etc. (on a separate subnet).

So my question is, considering I already have Pihole set-up, am I missing some key benefit that AdGuard Home would provide?

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[–] 32 points 3 years ago (3 children)

I've been using a pihole exclusively for years on my Ubiquiti network at home. Combined with Wireguard, it's a stable, easy ad-blocking solution. I've never even considered moving from it, seeing how well pihole Just Works.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    That's more-or-less what I thought. And in fact I forgot to add to my post that I also use Pihole on the go via Wireguard, which seems like another hurdle to converting to AdGuard. Thanks.

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  • [+] -12 points 3 years ago

    If you bother that much, why not just use the Pi as an OpenWRT router with DNS over HTTPS, and get a great router with awesome QoS and actual software updates in the process?

    It’s a vast superset of whatever PiHole does.

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