I must say, I do like the AdGuard Home user interface. Once completed you are greeted by the AdGuard dashboard and that is where this review will begin. Compared to Pi-hole, AdGuard is definitely easier to set up. Once installed AdGuard Home provides a good looking and easy-to-use onboarding wizard. Once the DNS on your router has been adjusted every device on your network will benefit from AdGuard Home. If you can’t find the setting in your router’s dashboard try searching for “ change DNS”. I’m guessing that if you know how to set up AdGuard Home you will be able to make that change without any help. Once you’ve got AdGuard Home working you will have to change your router’s DNS to point to AdGuard Home’s IP. The application is also available on the Snap Store for those looking to install AdGuard Home on a Linux host. I can only guess that the Home Assistant Community Add-on is even easier to get running. I’m currently running Home Assistant Core and not Home Assistant so I don’t have access to the add-ons. For those of you running Home Assistant there is a Community Add-on available.

If you don’t use Docker you’re in luck, AdGuard Home runs on Linux, Windows, macOS, and FreeBSD. I can definitely recommend running AdGuard Home on Docker if you already have it running. Using Docker the installation went without a hitch and AdGuard Home was ready to be used in a matter of minutes. I’ve opted to use Docker to run my instance of AdGuard Home. And because a network-level blocker will stop any ads and trackers from even being downloaded (something a browser extension can’t do) they can actually speed up your browsing experience.Īdvertisement How to install AdGuard Home Network-level blockers are lightweight and can even run on low-power devices such as the popular Raspberry Pi. Whereas browser extensions tend to be quite resource intensive because they scan every page you open and then block the ads. And those devices include smartphones, tablets, smart televisions, consoles, and anything else that might be connected to your network. It does this by redirecting ad and tracking domains to a “black hole”, thus preventing your devices from even connecting to those servers.

AdGuard Home, just like Pi-hole, is a network-level blocker and doesn’t require any extensions or apps to be added to your browser or operating system.Ī network-level blocker will silently sit in the background and block ads and trackers from reaching any device connected to your network. Those of you who don’t know how AdGuard Home works might want to know what differentiates it from ad blocking browser extensions.

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