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?

  • @[email protected]English
    6•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.

    • OutcideEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      I swapped from Blocky to AdGuardHome because of AdGuardSync.