Recently saw a post regarding pi-hole, and I am considering to try it out. I am wondering if it would fit my usecase, so I want to ask about specifically what it solves.
I heard pi-hole blocks ads at DNS resolution level, so it does not block e.g. youtube ads. For me and my family who mostly watch youtube with handful of blog surfing, what value would it bring? Most blogs do not seem to contain much ads, so I am not sure ad-blocking helps much there.
Given the praise pi-hole is getting, I guess there are more to it than limited blocking of ads. I would love to learn more about this topic, as I am blind on the networking stuff. Thanks in advance!
Thanks a lot for detailed analysis!!
May I ask about difference between Adguard Home and Pi-Hole in terms of “setup once and forget”?
To put a fine point on it, its about usability. AdGuard is just a simple DNS stub resolver which acts as a middle-man between your network, and an upstream DNS resolver. Basically, your device makes a DNS request to your AdGuard instance, and it either gets filtered out by your blacklists (and never leaves your network), or its forwarded to an upstream DNS resolver (a real DNS server) and then back again. Pi-Hole does the same thing, and many many many more things. So while they would both do what you want, Pi-Hole (in my experience) is dozens of times more complicated and difficult to setup. Which is awesome–if you need all those other features.