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?

  • Qazwsxedcrfv000@lemmy.unknownsys.comEnglish
    25·
    1 year ago

    The only edge Adguard Home has over PiHole I can think of is its out-of-box support of encrypted DNS upstream and downstream queries (e.g. DNS-over-HTTPS and DNS-over-TLS).

    • Sudo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      This is the reason why I switched over to Adguard Home and stuck to it.

    • mnrockclimber@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I guess that’s nice. I installed cloudflared myself and get the same results that way with my pinhole. But it was an extra step.

    • German The Jackal@pawb.socialEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      It can also run directly on lower powered machines. GL.iNet routers are a good example, they’re based on OpenWrt and come with AdGuard Home support out of the box, so no need for a whole external computer to handle DNS stuff. Sure it’s limited by ram about how many lists you can have, but still. Pihole is much more “substantial”