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Pihole vs AdGuard Home (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I found it easier to setup adguard as my DHCP server, because I wasn't able to change the default DNS settings of my isp's router.

Additionally The web interface was quite laggy on my raspberry pi 1b and it always filled up my sdcard with log data (it's been over a year since when I last used pihole though)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

setup adguard as my DHCP server

To be fair, Pihole can also be setup as your DHCP server, and it's not exactly complicated either.

https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/how-do-i-use-pi-holes-built-in-dhcp-server-and-why-would-i-want-to/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I bought my own router and modem because of that. Cox started locking router features away inside their app and wanted $10/month to change settings on a modem/router combo I was already paying $8/month to rent!

Now the Pi-Hole is my DHCP server.