I use Pi-Hole and works great. I’ve heard about AdGuard and seems the same thing as PiHole, but you have to install an app/extension. Everyone in this community recommend NextDNS. Whats the difference between them?
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Ah, Portmaster. I tried to use this about three times over the past years but I find it extremely complicated and unituitive. Might be just me, though.
I can see the appeal of blocking stuff on network level with Adguard/Pihole (though I’ve never succeeded implementing them into my home network), so you just have to install it once and not on every device but you’re argument that it doesn’t work on the road is obvie true.
Well I just have 3 devices, PC where I use Portmaster (and I am still learning to configure it all but I also enjoy blocking many shit), on phone I don’t do anything to even bother to have an ad blocker (Fennec has ad block plugin already and OS is /e/ so no google anyway) and on my laptop… of course, I have Portmaster too. My SmartTV neither have ads, I do screencast or I use my own media server to watch stuff.
Pi-Hole requires you to run a RPi 24/7, which is energy usage. If I wanted to block it via DHCP, I would use my OpenWrt router that is designed for this.
https://github.com/openwrt/packages/blob/master/net/adblock/files/README.md