Pi-hole VS AdGuardHome

EWW, DON'T DOWNLOAD APPS TO STOP ADS BROTHER. GET A PI-HOLE AND TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR SECURITY AND DATA! NOTHING MAKES MY HOG HARDER THAN MY OWN SECURITY AND DATA.

Sad, but I won't leave home without using these add-ons: Get rid of GDPR pop-ups , uBlock Origin, plus a pi-hole. See the result here: https://streamable.com/91el6a

If I download the episode behind my pi-hole on my home wifi, I don't get any ads. If if download/stream them off my cellphone service, I'll still get them. Can't recommend pi-hole more.

Here’s the link to Pihole’s webpage: https://pi-hole.net/

It is surprisingly easy, if you have some time on your hands. Check Pihole for all info necessary.

A DNS blackhole (aka sinkhole) is a means of blocking ads and malicious sites on a network. It can either be a package added to your Linux-based firewall/router/proxy server or set up as an independent appliance. Two examples I’m aware of are pfblockerng or pihole. I personally use pfsense with pfblockerng and several of the main blacklists.

I'm starting to configure some applications on my home server and am revisiting my existing network configuration before I get too deep. As a first step I'm investigating installing openvpn on my pihole server and have been rereading the getting-started guide on pi-hole.net. I noticed that as a prerequisite iptables are supposed to be configured as per these rules. Running `iptables --list` locally doesn't show any rules set up, and I'm not running either of the alternative applications listed on the doc. I've been running this pihole server for about a year for dns with unbound and dhcp. Have I screwed up pretty badly here? Do I need to go back and add those rules? Thanks.

Maybe you should open issues for the missing bits. I'm pretty sure others would appreciate that functionality, too.

Yes it’s possible. See the wiki: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/wiki/Clients

If you want an alternative to Pi-hole. I highly recommend AdGuard home. https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardHome. Every thing is way more intuitive and list management is a breeze.

I didn't use a VPN, but I recently setup AdGuard Home as a DNS sinkhole to block Ads, trackers and malware from the Internet. A more popular choice is Pi-Hole but to run it in openSUSE you need Docker/Podman. I am still undecided on whether PiHole or AdGuard is better for me. Also you need to open some firewall ports for them to work.

Try adding ||twttr.com^, ||t.co^, and ||twimg.com^, that's from https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/blob/master/internal/filtering/blocked.go and seems to cover almost all the domains in https://github.com/d43m0nhLInt3r/socialblocklists/blob/master/Twitter/Twitterblocklist.txt and https://github.com/Sinfonietta/hostfiles/blob/master/social-hosts except for cdn.cms-twdigitalassets.com, twimg0-0.akamaihd.net, static.ads-twitter.com and ssl2.twitter.com.edgekey.net, not sure if adding those will broke anything.

I want to run AdGuard on docker and I get error as port 53 is busy. Upon googling, I found the solution is to disable systemd-resolved on the host machine. That sounds like a scary hack, how true it is? And what can be the loss for host because of it? What I will miss?

In (what I would deem) an ideal system, the $dnsrewrite rule would honor other rewrites, and I could layer the solution with CNAME like directive, but currently AdGuard doesn't support recursive rewrite rules.

On the bottom right I have current version :  v0.107.5 , I saw there is new version of : v0.107.6

Its free and opensource https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome I'm using it for some years