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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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[-] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's a third party tool for AdGuard which allows syncing multiple instances. Very nice because if you want something to be redundant in your home setup, it's DNS. This adds the ability to sync configured rulesets and custom DNS entries.

EDIT: There seems to be a similar tool for Pi-hole as well.

[-] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 2 points 1 year ago

I was warming up to post the gravity sync link before I got to your edit. I've been using it for at least a couple years and I've been happy.

[-] outcide@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I swapped from Blocky to AdGuardHome because of AdGuardSync.

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