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Pihole vs AdGuard Home (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by theghostoutside_@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[–] whenever8186 -1 points 1 year ago

I used to do all this, but then I gave up and started paying for NextDNS. It's like having your own Piholes in the cloud. It's like £18/year and is way more reliable than self hosting, especially for something as crucial as DNS for your home. It also has excellent parental controls if you need that, multiple profiles, good logging and analytics and a decent looking privacy policy.

Sure, it's not as fun as self-hosting but it's better then getting shouted at every time someone's app stops working because of some glitch in your setup.