Hey guys, I recently bought an orange pi zero 2 and, as the title suggests, I want to put an ad blocker on it. Those are the options. I also will put openvpn for external connection to my network. Does anyone have experience with them? What would you suggest?
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As a counterpoint I’ve had pihole running in various configurations for 7 or 8 years and the only problem I’ve had was a log file got too big or something. Works great.
It also depends what else you are trying to do, but I love PiHole’s ability to act as a proper DNS server for my LAN with support for A and CNAME records
With AdGuard Home you don’t even need to have log files, there’s built in options to store it in-memory.
Lots of love for Adguard home, I’m inclined to go for that. Thanks all
Tried all three over the years… I have to say AdGuard Home due to how feature-rich it is. Currently have two instances running, one at home the other for remote usage. AGH is better than the other two at nearly everything.
Heey iam using pihole for a few years now i realy like that it works good with no problems so far. Even have unbound pared wirh it and for tunneling home i use wireguard never tried adguard or blocky
I’ve read about unbound but not knowledgeable enough to understand what it does. Could you king of eli5 it to me? Also, is wireguard better than openvpn?
Wireguard is very lightweight and it just works. No overly complex setup, tools, matching protocols, algorithms, versions, etc. It just works and it’s simple UDP traffic. It’s the first self hosted VPN that I actually love and that works on all my machines, mobiles, VMs with just a config file to fine tune what should go over the line.
This is the reason indeed its lightweight and installation and connecting other clients was easy with the qr code
Another vote for PiHole.
Also, thanks for turning me on to Unbound. Which Pi are you running those services on and how’s the performance?
Iam running it a raspberry 3b its doing fine we are with 3 ppl in house so there are not that many request
+1 to AdguardHome. Set it up on a Synology NAS via docker following some written guides found online. Been rock solid for years.
I may try this (again). I find that even with DNS level blocking, I still end up using Adguard for Windows and Android, because it removes whitespaces left behind by DNS blockers. Do you also find this to be the case?
I do find that to be the case. Also some ADs just can’t seem to get filtered by DNS blockers…. DNS blocker still helps for devices that can’t have their own AD blocker though.
DNS blocker still helps for devices that can’t have their own AD blocker though.
Yes! I actually use Adguard DNS (public) on my TV/game console to cut down on some ads.
Started on PiHole a long time ago, went to AdGuardhome, then have moved over to Technitium DNS (https://technitium.com/dns/). That might be another option to investigate, it allows Ad blocking as well as a lot more than AdGuardhome and Pihole.
Last I tried Technitium, it took over 100ms to resolve domain names that take 1ms otherwise.
Hmmm…I’ve never noticed any lag on my end, but then again, I don’t time my DNS ms resolutions myself. :) Good to know though!
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I use AGH myself, it runs great and stays out of the way. I have not tried pihole so can’t speak on it
I’ve been using adgaurd home from the official truenas apps. Running for about 3 or 4 months. It’s doing it’s job but it’s no silver bullet. Also added a good few custom lists.
I also started on pihole, but switched to Blocky because Blocky is way more DevOps friendly (I run this stuff on microk8s on a Pi cluster).
Then I just ditched it altogether and now use NextDNS. Well worth paying the small fee for. But you obviously don’t get the same DIY satisfaction out of it.
I’ve been using adgaurd home from the official truenas apps. Running for about 3 or 4 months. It’s doing it’s job but it’s no silver bullet. Also added a good few custom lists.
This might not be a factor you care about, but Adguard is developed in Russia.
Even if that were true, it would not matter since the source code is open and you can take a look at it to put this phobia of yours to rest.
Also FYI, AdGuard is based in Cyprus.
It’s not just about trusting the code (which anyway isn’t a small task to review it, and all future PRs, and run your own builds from reviewed code) but also there are some people who will avoid Russian developed stuff at the moment for moral reasons, you know, because of the whole Ukraine thing.
