Blocks all ads on the network level. No more ads in apps, smart tv ads, etc....
Seems too good to be true. Does this shit work?
Also no I'm not shilling Adguard. Genuinely curious
AdGuard - What's the catch?
Isaiah Powell
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Caleb Jenkins
>AdGuard
I mean, doesn't PiHole do the same thing by having a fuckhuge library of ad agency IPs and blocking them via /etc/hosts?
These things work well enough they're just a little bit heavy in practice.
Adrian Gomez
what is adguard? the only 2 players in the space as far as i'm concerned is pihole and ublock origin
Nathan Baker
adnauseam.io
Christian Allen
Ye I was looking into PiHole too but apparently you need one of picrel OSs
I run Linux Mint, which is built on top of Ubuntu, so maybe it would work but idk
Jason Cooper
Ohhhhh. I like this
Grayson Gutierrez
Install it on your vm server
Logan Kelly
It's a DNS server. It's kind of like a pihole in that it works on the DNS level but it's really more comparable to nextdns since you can have their servers manage your lists for you (although that's still in open beta, the main public DNS only blocks ads and trackers and must cause no breakage, so in particular facebook and twitter tracking is allowed for the same reason as brave defaults)
The catch is that it's probably a honeypot but so is everything else and as long as SNI exists there's no reason to try to hide your dns queries
Andrew Martin
mint is literally ubuntu
Elijah Morgan
Yeah it's ubuntu if you remove gnome 3/4 and snaps and amazon and microsoft and made the UI with your eyes open
Julian Hall
My understanding is that Mint extends Ubuntu. So you're saying PiHole would still work?
Ian Robinson
>it's just a DNS server
That's a bit shady and the fact it is either all on or off means you'll still need something else. I'd have to pass.
Levi Clark
The catch is that they spy on you and sell your data to advertising companies.
Ryan Stewart
>the fact it is either all on or off means you'll still need something else
what do you mean?
Jason Davis
Consider hypothetical, if it actually did it's job perfectly, with no side effects: it would necessarily have to be more lenient than most users would need so you wouldn't block actual content. You would need a second adblocking software to get the stuff it didn't get.
Mason Myers
This is not particularly likely to be true, they block said advertising companies and are the largest uBlock contributors by line count after Fanboy
That's what the custom lists are for. But I always saw it as more of a grandma solution anyway, if you know enough to be worried about that, you can do aggresive pihole/ublock just fine
Chase Powell
Yeah, I just have a custom /etc/hosts file on my home network, and run adnauseam on my browser.
Samuel Evans
Didn't you hear about all the AdGuard drama this week?
Ryan King
News is pretty empty....wdym?
Nicholas Morales
Ignore him, he's been spamming "this weeks' drama" about anything he can and the fact that he's not rangebanned yet makes me think it's a mod taking the piss
Nolan Gray
>Ignore him, he's been spamming "this weeks' drama" about anything he can and the fact that he's not rangebanned yet makes me think it's a mod taking the piss