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https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/releases Trivial to self-host, and gives you full control of blocking.

comment by ripdog · 2026-09-04 · in Shutting down our public encrypted DNS

It is - GPLv3 https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/blob/master/LICEN...

comment by vin047 · 2025-11-15 · in Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today

It's a self-hosted software under GPL3 license. https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

comment by watermelon0 · 2025-03-09 · in Stuff a Pi-hole in your router because your browser is about to betray you

…4,351 3.71% euc-excel-telemetry.officeapps.live.com 4,141 3.53% https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

comment by datadeft · 2025-02-19 · in uBlock Origin Has Been Disabled

…thing, but is slightly better polished, with things like support for DoH and OSs other than Linux. https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

comment by LeoPanthera · 2025-02-18 · in Pi-hole v6

…network setup and how exactly you'd like it configured. AdGuardHome is fairly straightforward: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome?tab=readme-ov-fil... And here is a nice script to install wireguard:…

comment by aschla · 2025-01-05 · in Ads chew through half of mobile data

…DNS" that is active on both wifi and cellular. [0] https://0xerr0r.github.io/blocky/latest/ [1] https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome [2] https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html how to configure

comment by squaresmile · 2024-10-24 · in The global surveillance free-for-all in mobile ad data

Try AdGuardHome. https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome I basically have all my devices use it when I am on my network, and when I am off my network, my Wireguard connection (or Tailscale depending...) uses my home DNS server.

comment by zikduruqe · 2024-05-29 · in AdFlush

Also AdGuardhome will use optimistic caching, which is great. https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/discussions/4002#...

comment by zikduruqe · 2024-04-08 · in Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network

Last I checked, AdGuard Home also did this. https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

comment by heywire · 2024-02-07 · in Go 1.22

The main repo is GPLv3: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome They already have many other commercials products and I guess also the default filter rules are very good because of their experience in the domain. But I think you can use…

comment by andix · 2024-02-06 · in AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server

…DoT and DoH upstreams, which is still not a thing with many home routers. Edit: here are the docs: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/wiki/Configuratio...

comment by andix · 2024-02-06 · in AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server

How it compares to let's say AdGuard Home? Seems similar https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

comment by systemz · 2024-01-17 · in Technitium DNS Server: Self host a DNS server for privacy and security

pihole or adguard home[0] [0]: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome#getting-started

comment by ggpsv · 2023-11-21 · in Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024

…in but since AG is mentioned. If you want to have all the data under you control, there's this: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome Regarding open source, AdGuard DNS actually is: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardDNS In the…

comment by ameshkov · 2023-09-01 · in Browser extensions spy on you, even if its developers don't

How does this compare to adguard home??? https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardHome

comment by tbbfjotllf · 2023-08-27 · in Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf

Cool, we'll add a link to this to AGH readme: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/issues/5858

comment by ameshkov · 2023-05-30 · in Realtime traffic monitoring and stats for your AdGuard Home instance on Terminal

Adguard apparently plans to support it: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/issues/1228

comment by shrx · 2023-01-14 · in Pi-hole: Network-wide ad blocking

Which will never happen for DNS-only blockers like pi-hole. See e.g. here: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome#known-limitations

comment by bertman · 2023-01-14 · in Pi-hole: Network-wide ad blocking

A truly better alternative to pi-hole while still self hosted is AdGuardHome: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome#comparison-pi-hol...

comment by sodality2 · 2023-01-14 · in Pi-hole: Network-wide ad blocking

AdGuardHome is free but AdGuard is not. What you are looking for is https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

comment by anthropodie · 2022-11-29 · in An extensive tutorial on how to setup a Pi-Hole

…Just pull binary and run it. It will even generate systemd service file for you if you need. Edit: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

comment by anthropodie · 2022-11-29 · in An extensive tutorial on how to setup a Pi-Hole

…APIs) For an in-depth comparison between the two you can take a look at the AGH GitHub Page[0] [0]: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome#comparison-pi-hol...

comment by mattrighetti · 2022-11-29 · in An extensive tutorial on how to setup a Pi-Hole

The Readme file has a section on that: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome#how-does-adguard-...

comment by jannes · 2022-10-31 · in AdGuard Home: Network-wide ads and trackers blocking DNS server

…it up to date is probably a Cron script that runs curl to trigger the upgrade API endpoint. [1] https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/blob/master/opena... [2] https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome#getting-started

comment by livre · 2022-10-30 · in AdGuard Home: Network-wide ads and trackers blocking DNS server

There is details on the page: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome#comparison-pi-hol...

comment by rjgonza · 2022-10-29 · in AdGuard Home: Network-wide ads and trackers blocking DNS server

Put Adguard Home on a Raspberry Pi, and point your router DNS to it. https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

comment by cloudking · 2022-08-01 · in How I regained concentration and focus

If you want an alternative to Pi-hole. I highly recommend AdGuard home. https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardHome . Every thing is way more intuitive and list management is a breeze.

comment by vanillax · 2022-05-04 · in What are your most used self-hosted applications?

I'm using Adguard Home and it's working great. https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

comment by mekster · 2022-03-12 · in Ask HN: Neutral DNS servers?

Please do! I use AdGuard Home [0] and the built-in mechanism for "blocked services". [0]: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

comment by sodality2 · 2022-03-07 · in My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll

Basically, hosted AdGuard Home? https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome I love AdGuard home and this might be useful to someone who doesn't want to set up a server. But for friends/family members/anyone who stumbles upon my website, I…

comment by sodality2 · 2021-09-30 · in AdGuard DNS

…self hosted adguard? It's very performant and can use any of the lists you can use with pihole: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome Switched a few years ago and it's great!

comment by jcastro · 2021-05-19 · in YouTube ads in Safari: you see them now, will you see them in the future?

…filters. Adding the MITM proxy would allow for processing of the cosmetic filters too. More info: - https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/issues/391 - https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/issues/1228

comment by dastx · 2021-03-07 · in AdGuard publishes a list of 6K+ trackers abusing the CNAME cloaking technique

This is also part of AdGuard Home . I think this was the PR that fixed it - https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/issues/1185 . If you haven't tried out AdGuard Home, I can highly recommend it. Has same feature set as Pi-Hole and…

comment by gramakri · 2021-03-05 · in AdGuard publishes a list of 6K+ trackers abusing the CNAME cloaking technique

…That's exactly why, for example Firefox queries CloudFlare's DoH if it gets an NXDOMAIN[1] [1] https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/issues/1914

comment by livre · 2020-11-18 · in Unbound DNS Blacklist

…I get this for free using AdGuard Home[1] that blocks ads at the network level. It's great. [1] https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

comment by heavyset_go · 2020-09-26 · in Stop Asking Me to “Sign Up” (2014)

…seems to directly contradict their repo GPLv3 license. [1] [0] https://adguard.com/en/eula.html [1] https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/blob/master/LICEN...

comment by syoc · 2020-07-12 · in WireGuard as VPN Server on Kubernetes with AdBlocking

…Regarding Pi-Hole, we actually maintain a free and open source alternative called AdGuard Home: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

comment by ameshkov · 2020-06-23 · in Safari is adopting an extensions API similar to Firefox’s WebExtensions

…using the desktop version you will actually see that adguard is free and available here on github: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome In regards to pi-hole. The cumbersome nature of pi-hole makes it undesirable for me . There were…

comment by bluedays · 2020-06-23 · in Safari is adopting an extensions API similar to Firefox’s WebExtensions

…if you want it to auto update or use WindowsSpyBlocker[3] and keep it updated manually. [1] https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome [2] https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/tree/master/d... [3]…

comment by livre · 2020-06-10 · in Windows Privacy Dashboard: GUI for Windows 10 Privacy Settings

…I tried both but stuck with PiHole since the community around it seemed more developed. [0] https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/wiki/Getting-Star...

comment by close04 · 2020-05-27 · in NextDNS Is Out of Beta

…is an alternative to PiHole. This is a first-tier filter I have while at home for all my devices. https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/ On the web browser, I have the AdGuard Firefox extension. https://adguard.com/en/adguard-browser-e…

comment by Jailout2000 · 2019-08-23 · in Ask HN: What's the best setup for ad blocking and tracker blocking?

…set up the blocklists. [0] https://adguard.com/en/adguard-home/overview.html which takes you to: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

comment by close04 · 2019-08-09 · in I Tried Hiding from Big Tech in a Pile of Privacy Gadgets

Consider trying AdGuard Home as well: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardHome

comment by ameshkov · 2019-06-07 · in I left the ad industry because of data tracking

If you're interested in Pi-hole you might want to check out AdGuard Home: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome Pi-hole isn't difficult to setup but AdGuard Home is much easier. Just download the binary and run it. If you want it to…

comment by dsissitka · 2019-02-26 · in Pi-Hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements

…like they have mentioned it but this is an alternative to their existing self-hosted dns solution. https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

comment by sdwisely · 2018-12-31 · in AdGuard DNS: A Privacy-Oriented DNS Server

…want to checkout AdGuard Home if you want to run it on your own server or in your own network: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome Notable differences between it and Pi-Hole: 1. Easy to set up and use. It's just a single binary,…

comment by ameshkov · 2018-12-30 · in AdGuard DNS: A Privacy-Oriented DNS Server

Here is a short FAQ 1. Where is the code? Here it is: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome 2. Pi-hole? Pi-hole is awesome! Actually, before AdGuard Home launch it was the only viable option. Now you have a choice. Also, we named this…

comment by ameshkov · 2018-10-17 · in Show HN: AdGuard Home – an open source network-wide ad blocker