So, as for my reasonings, it's subjective, but in my opinion just has a sleeker UI. There are some benefits to it such as being written in Go over PHP and it has DNS Rewrite that supports wildcards. Many of the features and functionality between Pi-Hole and AdGuard are identical. If you're installing something like this for the first time, try both and find the one that works for you.

@audiocorps2334

Ай бұрын

> There are some benefits to it such as being written in Go over PHP How is this a benefit? Actually, what are you even talking about comparing backend to frontend? Pihole is written in bash, C, and PHP. Bash mostly for scripted interactions and their FTL engine is in C. PHP only performs on their web frontend. If you're gonna customize it, the PHP version will be significantly faster to work with since the backend of Adguard would require you to retranspile react when you make modifications.

@user-ct8zg4nb3g

29 күн бұрын

A curious question: Are there people over eighty years of age who are very elderly people who own modern smart phones???

@evilleader1991

29 күн бұрын

Actual reason: got sponsored by Adguard so made a video 🤑🤑🤑

Not even gonna explain why ?

@Cuperino

Ай бұрын

This video should be retitled because of this.

@nico1337

Ай бұрын

The usual clickbait...

@Ahduciekwndnbbbsvvvghhhyyyyy

Ай бұрын

They do the same thing… except AdGuard is a private company that lets advertisers pay to show ads they’ve “blocked”. Its trading your privacy for a nicer UI.

@soundsnags2001

16 күн бұрын

This is just a paid advertisment

No, you dont block ALL the ads. And also no, it does not filter IP´s.

@fver00

Ай бұрын

You are completely right.. Do you know a satisfactory solution to this problem? Thank you!

@tomasbarek2852

Ай бұрын

@@fver00 Well the satisfactory solution the guy above might be thinking of could be IP-based blocking, DNS blocking and a browser extension (scripts blocking). I use all of that mentioned before, which is satisfactory for me personally. Yet, it still does not remove everything, such as in-app ads (ads in Facebook app on Android, ads in KZread app and so on)

@brunoamiguel

Ай бұрын

Yep. AdGuardHome works similarly to uBlock Origin and it even supports the same block lists. True, it can block IPs and specific services, but its blocking capabilities are far more powerful than something like, say, PiHole

Ай бұрын

@@tomasbarek2852 That's not totally correct, it does not block certain in-app ads, but will block a lot of them, It will block all ads that are served from servers with domains that are in the blocklist. As youtube's ads are served from the same servers as the actual videos, they can't be blocked via this method without breaking youtube. Same goes for many social media sites.

2bit opinion, either use a static IP for something like this OR add a static mapping for this host for DHCP.

Man. I have been saying yesterday to one of my friends that I wanted to utilize my old Mele Quieter 3Q mini PC as a Proxmox Server witha Pihole and media (Photo and Music) server.... and Voila... You came out with a video..n Now I'm twisted between a Pihole and Adguard... Great job. Maybe you can advise what can be used as a photo and music server??

After I installed adguard on docker my host machine lost internet after for some reason

Yess great video I ducked pi hole for adguard home about 6 months ago and haven’t looked back!

@eleehoh

Ай бұрын

What are the pros that lead to you not to look back?

@M167A1

Ай бұрын

​@@eleehohfor me it was ease of configuration after my raspberry pi died. Although in fairness I did this on casa OS but the process is similar

How would you setup the custom block page as it only takes an IP and wont work with SSL. thank you

Thank you. Very good video. I have not used AdGuard, but i really like the interface. Very thorough and complete.

best way to use your adguard home instance outside local network?

Does it have a Local DNS allocation feature like Pihole? I use that more than ad blocking.

Didn't know I needed this.

@brennanfee7458

Ай бұрын

Use Pi-Hole instead. It's better.

I am not joking but literally an hour ago I fixed my old broken for half a year pi-topt(pi hole on an old netbook).... Well here we go again X.X

So, is it any better than Pi-Hole? Was kinda hoping to hear the reasons behind the switch.

@TechHut

Ай бұрын

It's subjective, but for me it just has a sleeker UI. There are some benefits to it such as being written in Go over PHP and it has DNS Rewrite that supports wildcards.

@joe7992

Ай бұрын

@@TechHut I agree, I prefer AdGuard simply because of the dummy-proof UI. Very subjective here as well haha. However, in my somewhat uneducated opinion the language each are written in is neither a benefit nor a negative? Both AdGuard and Pi-Hole will run on pretty much anything in my experience and are both written in well maintained languages. If I were to argue one over the other as objectively as possible (even though I use AdGuard), piHole just has a much more active community for troubleshooting and stuff. Other than that I doubt any user is really going to complain that one is programmed in a certain way or uses a few megabytes less memory for normal applications. Please let me know what you think, I'd love to know more about why Go may be more appropriate than PHP. You are much more knowledgeable than I in this area and I'd love to hear how wrong I probably am. Thanks

@johndroyson7921

Ай бұрын

Can the DNS rewrites work with DoH enabled?

@brennanfee7458

Ай бұрын

It's WORSE than Pi-Hole. He is getting paid to do this video. AdGuard charges advertisers for the "privilege" of bypassing their filter.

@HiltonT69

Ай бұрын

Can you provide ANY evidence of that claim? ... Didn't think so. I've been using Adguard Home for years now with the same block lists I used with Pihole and still don't see adverts. Why make up complete lies and defame a perfectly good app?

@TechHut The trackball mouse caught my eyes. Which one is it?

Curious what distro you been running lately?

3:09 oops HAHA ... great vid

Great video, although as a new Proxmox user I am finding a lot of how-to's where they use this helper scripts which are pretty good and all but they actually teach you very little. Have you consider maybe doing 2 segments, one with scripts and one from the ground up?

@MarkConstable

17 күн бұрын

Heh, doing it from the "ground up" usually means adding Docker and then using docker-compose = yuk. I agree with you, seeing how to set up services manually would be hugely instructive, but maybe 10 times longer.

@fredogomero3815

17 күн бұрын

@@MarkConstable I believe 10 times falls short, but learning (really learning) is rarely fast

good to know the alternative is good, but I don't feel like ditching Pi-Hole with Unbound just yet xD

You still need adblock even if you use adguard, esp if you want to circumvent ads on sites like KZread/Twitch

great video. can you make a guide on how to use this on mobile devices outside of the local network? like when commuting?

@eleehoh

Ай бұрын

You will need to connect to the same network where Adguard is located. Therefore, you must establish a VPN connection. Alternatively, Adguard provides a cloud solution for a fee that should address your requirements.

@mrhaydendp

Ай бұрын

A VPN is the easiest way but you can also setup DNS over HTTPS and DNS over TLS (this is what Android's Private DNS feature uses) in Adguard Home by going to Settings > Encryption then filling in the required fields.

noob question, can you use pi hole and adguard or is that not a thing? sorry for being new lol appreciate all you do fren.

@angrynerd2103

Ай бұрын

You can but theres not a reason to. One or the other will do the job. If you do want to use both for whatever reasons you'll want them on different machines, otherwise there will be port conflicts.

@aliencreation8744

Ай бұрын

@@angrynerd2103 thanks homie, appreciate it

Why have you switched to AdGuard from Pi Hole?

Can I install this on Windows? Looks great.

what is the mouse you are using?

I've used both and adguard looks better but in terms of what they do it's pretty even. Adguard does out of the box some things you will need to manually add/change in pi hole but in the end I found pi hole more intuitive for some things and stuck with it. Can't go wrong with either really and it's relatively painless to try both of them out.

I have the omada controller but when I update the dns server settings with my adguard ip, just as you showed in the video, nothing happens. If I set the dns in windows it works right away... What am I doing wrong

@TechHut

26 күн бұрын

After you save the DNS settings, Turn off all the networking equipment and the device that's running AdGuard. Completely start up the network stuff and then turn on the device when you AdGuard. That MIGHT fix it. Also if you selected static IP when setting up adguard switch it to DHCP.

Hi, which mouse are you using?

@MatiasOltrabella

23 күн бұрын

After some digging, I believe it's the protoarc em01

Where can I get a mouse like that?, pretty cool

Useful thanks

Thanks again for another great video. I havent tried adguard yet, might give it a try. What is that mouse in the video?

I have pihole on a raspberry pi zero, too much effort to switch

is there a way to get PF blocker to do that

@2Fast4Mellow

Ай бұрын

Technically yes, but what PiHole/Adguard are doing is not blocking ports. This is a DNS (relay) service. They just override a lot of common hostnames to 127.0.0.1, so the host cannot be reached and consequently the resource cannot be fetched. Doing the same thing with a firewall is very difficult, because you first need to resolve the hostname to the respected geo IP ranges. As this is a DNS solution, you can only block on hostnames, which is why you often still see (some) ads on webpages. As these solutions have become very popular, you see that the bigger network start using a single hostname again and path routing to separate the different resources files. AGH gets only the hostname that needs to be visited, you browser plugin sees the full url and can also do regexp filtering...

Does it work for KZread ads?

@TheGhostInTheWires

Ай бұрын

No. You can't block KZread ads with DNS. KZread ads are served from the same URL as the service itself. But there are ways to block KZread ads on AndroidTV, browsers, Android, WebOStv, and iOS (without root or jailbreak). Although I can't mention which ones because KZread will shadowban the comment.

@immutablecantrip

Ай бұрын

@@TheGhostInTheWires I figured. I was just wondering if there was any reason why AdGuard might be better than pihole.

Installing AdGuard, but at the same time configuring it with a DNS address from Google... Isnt that a bit counter intuitive?!

It doesn't work with youtube unfortunately

@brennanfee7458

Ай бұрын

That's because Google paid AdGuard their extortion fee to be excluded from their filters. AdGuard is just a scam where they inject themselves between the advertiser and you and get to profit by extorting the advertiser.

@tomasbarek2852

Ай бұрын

And it will never work because it is out of the scope of its capabilities. You will have to install an additional browser extension (uBlock, AdGuard or AdBlock) or use another method for watching KZread. Do not get me wrong, I love AdGuard Home so much, I do not connect to the internet without it, but you have to realize it is still just a DNS filter with the possibility to encrypt DNS queries. This solution will not always block ads in apps that use encrypted connection, or websites which use script-based ads. It did actually block some ads in Android games in my case, but that was a rare occasion I think.

Does it block youtube ads?

@evilleader1991

17 күн бұрын

Ofc not, not even Pihole can block those. You need browser extension like ublock origin to block those

@emailausdrucker

17 күн бұрын

@@evilleader1991 🤣 chill, Chad. Thanks for clarifying.

hmm.. how to update this thing?

@TechHut

Ай бұрын

adguard-dns.io/kb/adguard-home/getting-started/#update

False, it won't block all ads. In fact, your browser addon will block way more ads (such as KZread's) AND make it easier to whitelist stuff. Also, AdGuard and PiHole are pretty much the same thing - primitive DNS filters.

Another service for my miniPC a.k.a Home Server

Should you be blocking the Ads? Shouldn't you be DOWNLOADING the Ads but sending them to dev/null. Isn't this how they know you're using an ad-blocker? They see you're not downloading them.

@m83555

Ай бұрын

Websites can detect missing HTML elements (belonging to display the ad), that are not loaded in the browser. This happens with help of JS in the browser directly. It doesn't matter if they were downloaded before or not. If the ad related HTML elements are missing in the DOM, the adblocker can be detected.

I switched to AdGuard Home about a year or so ago just because of the UI. I feel like the AGH interface is more modern. The Pihole interface has been stale for a while and I really like AGH a lot!

@bestofweb1011

Ай бұрын

Hey, DBTech. love your videos. Could we make both of ADG and pie-hole at the same time and use them like first and secondary DNS?

@brennanfee7458

Ай бұрын

Who cares what the interface looks like... the system that works best and is OPEN is always going to be better. AdGuard is a scam because they allow advertisers to pay them to bypass the filters.

@DBTechYT

Ай бұрын

​@@bestofweb1011 I mean... you *could* do that, but they wouldn't be able to communicate with each other, so you would have to manually manage each device separately.... like, if you added a blocklist to AdGuard home, you'd also have to manually add that list to PiHole. Both solutions have the ability (through a separate app) to automatically synchronize settings to simplify things a bit.

@bestofweb1011

Ай бұрын

@@DBTechYT yes I got it, I'll give AdGuard a shot. Thanks.

Claiming you don't need an adblocker when using Pihole or Adguard is simply false, because while those two can block ads from ever showing, it doesn't remove the empty spaces on the pages you load in, which tend to be more annoying than anything.

1. you can't block YT ads with that, LOL. 2. why did you say and emphasise DITCHED if both of the solutions are great!

@mr.dingleberry4882

4 күн бұрын

clickbait

@anasouardini

4 күн бұрын

@@mr.dingleberry4882 I hate these click baits, I always leave a dislike.

Adguard Home > Pi Hole.

I see you are using Microsoft Edge

A curious question: Are there people over eighty years of age who are very elderly people who own modern smart phones???!?!

@TechHut

26 күн бұрын

Yes. The numbers are lower but I go to my grandmother sometimes to a senior center and a lot of people have a nice phones.

The only difference that matters: AdGuard is a private, for-profit company that lets advertisers pay them to show you ads, even if you “blocked” them. Pi-hole does not.

But why did you ditched PiHole for Adguard?

I still think using an extension is better because it's way easier and you get cosmetic filtering, something you don't with a dns solution.

@RaduRadonys

Ай бұрын

Yeah, but they don't exclude each other. And it's better to drop the ads in the router than in the browser because your computer has less work to do. And also, mobile browsers and mobile games don't have extensions. Usually.

With all respect to the author but I personally do not try to use any russian software at all. Especially taking into consideration that - " Russian company, with Russian engineers, the majority of AdGuard developers and other employees working from Moscow, registered in Cyprus." What is the next, Kaspersky antivirus solution?

Title is not applicable to the video at all

Bro is getting less foss everyday

@TechHut

Ай бұрын

AdGuard Home is free and open-source software.

Soooooo ditch my selfhosted PiHole with recursive DNS for Adguard, a company founded by Russians that has Russian Engineers working on it? The country most known right now for their Cybercrime? Horrible take. At least use NextDNS if you're going to use somebody else's service.

@2Fast4Mellow

Ай бұрын

We hack other countries just as hard! Hell, we even hacked the cellphone of the German prime minister, the EU PBX (with help of the British) and StuxNet not only caused problems for Iran. Ironically we know of StuxNet because of a Russian AV company. Snowden has published some very interesting information about 10 years ago... But as we are the good guys, we can do everything rotten, right?!