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submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by theghostoutside_@lemmy.world 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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[-] timp80@lemmy.chatterverse.social 5 points 3 years ago

As someone who switched from PiHole to AdGuard Home a couple of years ago, my reason was because PiHole dropped support for adblock style lists that I was using, while AdGuard still supports them.

See here for more into

[-] subtext@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

I believe as of 2023-05-28 (v5.17), they began supporting Adblock-style lists.

https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/releases/v5.17

Edit: it may have even been before that, I think the above just added additional functionality.

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