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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] 33 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Adguard home would also work exactly the same way as pihole for that use case.

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

You can use a private Adblocking DNS on all OS at this point.

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

Does pihole affects your internet speed?

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

It has to go upstream for answered requests, so it can add 1 or 2 ms to the 45 ms it would otherwise take when you're local. If you're using a VPN to your home dns, it can add 75 ms and I can feel it.