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That's why I switched to Adguard Home: https://adguard.com/en/adguard-home/overview.html You can make custom configurations per device, OS or a different label you give them. So you can have your wife see their ads while still blocking your smart TV from calling home.

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Difference from pi-hole? Genuinely curious since I'm currently using pi-hole at home.

PiHole 5 introduced the same features but there used to be a difference in the past.

It's way faster in terms of UI atleast. It boots up almost instantly, configuration is pretty simple and the UI is better IMO.

What boots up almost instantly? It's supported on quite a few OSes [0], not to mention the underlying hardware. I found AdGuard's (Home) UI to be a bit more polished but it feels like it has feature parity with PiHole 5 otherwise. I tried both but stuck with PiHole since the community around it seemed more developed.

[0] https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/wiki/Getting-Star...

NextDNS is advertised as Cloudflare + Pi-Hole. And I think this is correct.

Something wrong with the Pi-Hole, I have to sit down (likely at home), and do it -- even to add/edit something. NextDNS is much simpler, I can set up from anywhere and I can even ask my wife to fix herself stuffs.

Must be just personal but these days, I'm not too keen on doing everything myself the way I want. I'm learning to say NO to a lot of things.

Not NextDNS, my question/comment was regarding the parent comment's mention of Adguard.

How does it differ from the NextDNS configuration profiles?

You run it yourself on your own hardware - a PC, Raspberry Pi, Linux server, Docker container - you choose. It is open source; logging remains with yourself. It only works inside your own network unless you VPN into your home network when you are remote.

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