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I used to use pi-hole. Then I replaced it with adguard home. Adguard home is a single go binary, and it properly supports HTTPS and secure DNS out of the box. Pi-hole is great, Adguard home is greater I think. At the end of the day though they both provide the same service. But I like that with adguard home I can have TLS DNS so I can have my mobile phone use private DNS via it even when it's not at home.

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You cannot ad blocklist in batch in AdGuard. Also developers are from Russia with headquarter in Cyprus.

This always makes me conflicted about AdGuard. I don’t mind they’re Russians, they cannot help “their” president being a tool. But the shadiness and opaqueness doesn’t jive well with me for a company that can basically see all my internet traffic.

I’m currently happily using https://nextdns.io/ but I don’t thing you can install that on a Raspberry Pi.

What do you mean add blocklist in batch? Do you mean assign a particular blocklist to a particular client? If so then yes, this is the one feature missing from Adguard home. Its other features more than make up for it.

I just want to add multiple blocklist urls. I cannot. I need to copy paste url, name it (optional) and confirm for every single blicklist.

Setting up blocklists is a one time thing. I mean I get your point but I see why not a lot of effort goes into this aspect.

I also think for DNS blocking you're best off just adding one list and being done with it. Adding lots and lots of lists only opens you up to more fault positives and problems down the line IMHO.

So making thinks difficult is now a feature?

But code is open source so r*ussians who cares?

It's kind of suspicious though, that you cannot find any info on for example who the Adguard CEO is, on their website.

Most companies have an "about us" section with info where at least you can see who the people/management are.

Instead, they provide a vague page: https://adguard.com/en/contacts.html

Is anyone compiling from source or are most all installing precompiled binaries? How does one verify a binary matches the source with no additional code? This is a rhetorical question meant as an excercise for the reader.

I agree. Also better DNS rewrite support for split DNS scenarios. I do like the dashboard and analysis possibilities of Pi-Hole better

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