Do you use AdGuard or Pi-Hole?

[gwminor48]

I've been considering using either one of these to cut down on ads. I notice Raspberry pi prices have gone through the roof due to chip shortage but I see other alternatives at a much lower price, some even able to use cases meant for Raspberry. How has your experience been with AdGuard, Raspberry pi, or hardware alternatives for this?

 

[cyberwolf_uk]

I use pi-hole in a docker container on one of my Synology NAS's, does the job...

 

[Old Timer]

You don't say what you use for a router/firewall.

I run PFsense for a firewall, and use PFblockerNG for ad/spam/hacker blocking.

 

[gwminor48]

You don't say what you use for a router/firewall.

I have AT&T fiber so the router is a Pace Plc 5268AC

 

[awonson]

@gwminor48, I run PiHole on two RPi 4B for two and a half years with no problems. Very easy to update. Every now and then I have to go in and locate which URLs are being blocked to allow a few sites to operate correctly - those few sites can then be whitelisted.
I use gravity-sync to sync the blocklists between the two PiHole instances that I run - GitHub - vmstan/gravity-sync: The easy way to synchronize the DNS configuration of two Pi-hole 5.x instances.

on one of the PiHole I run OpenVPN and on the other I run WireGuard VPN.