Pi-hole — Network-Wide Ad and Tracker Blocking You Actually Own
A deep dive into Pi-hole, the self-hosted DNS sinkhole that blocks ads and trackers for every device on your network with zero client software, and what it really costs and can't do.
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2 postsAdGuard Home: The Self-Hosted DNS Filter That Blocks Ads on Every Device You Own — Even the Ones You Can't Install Anything On
Browser extensions only protect the browser. AdGuard Home moves filtering down to DNS, where every device on your network is covered — a 36k-star GPL-3.0 Go binary with encrypted DNS and DHCP built in. Here is what it blocks, what it cannot block, and the one setting that quietly sends your data to AdGuard.