Finally got around to setting up network wide ad block, got tired of seeing ads on mobile/ipad at home. Decided to try Adguard Home instead of Pihole, seems that they're both equally effective. Happy so far!

[–] absGeekNZ 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have PiHole....it is great

[–] eagleeyedtiger 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did a bunch of searching of comparisons and most people seem to be happy with either. I'm not really sure why I chose Adguard, but if it underperforms it should be easy enough to switch

[–] bruzie 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is this just a case of swapping the router's upstream DNS to Adguard's? (IIRC I have google and Orcon set on mine).

[–] eagleeyedtiger 4 points 1 year ago

You can do that, however I found it doesn't show breakdown by client that way, it just shows the router's address as the only client.

I just have DHCP server on the Fritzbox setting the Adguard address for DNS server. I had to turn off DNSv6 server in the Fritzbox because I couldn't set a IPv6 DNS server address for Adguard as the box it's installed on doesn't have IPv6 enabled.

You can set as many upstream DNS providers up in Adguard as you want. I'm currently only using google and cloudflare.

[–] absGeekNZ 3 points 1 year ago

That works; but it is limited. I haven't bothered to set my PiHole as my DHCP srever, but if you do you get much better control over who is seeing what.

[–] evanuggetpi 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I ran a pihole for years but switched to NextDNS and am very happy with that. It's so easy to set up I've got the whole extended family using it now. I browse using Librewolf and have SmartTube on the TV. I never see ads.

[–] eagleeyedtiger 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks interesting, are you using the free version of NextDNS? I haven't run it long enough to know if I would go over the free limit yet.

Although I do prefer self hosting over cloud based.

[–] evanuggetpi 2 points 1 year ago

I pay something like $30 per year for NextDNS. I work from home and generate a massive amount of DNS requests. I have an RPI4 that now spends its days as a headless puppeteer instance instead.