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I have been using AdGuardHome on two raspberry pi nodes and it is the best filter I ever had.

2,320,452 DNS Queries

117,334 Blocked by Filters (5.06%).

Top blocked domains:

    eu-mobile.events.data.microsoft.com 45,3543 8.65%
    euc-word-telemetry.officeapps.live.com 7,573 6.45%
    metrics.icloud.com 6,475 5.52%
    4...13.us-east-1.prod.service.minerva.devices.a2z.com 4,351 3.71%
    euc-excel-telemetry.officeapps.live.com 4,141 3.53%

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

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Then it seems unlikely you've given ublock origin a real try. Not only can you just use the adguard filter lists in ublock origin, but DNS-based adblocking is and has been increasingly insufficient. What ublock origin can do is a strict superset of what adguard can do, and will perform better as you avoid sending out network requests at all.

I use NextDNS with almost all filters enabled. It blocks about ~30% off all requests.

Yet it can’t block anything from a hostname that also serves regular content (that is, without also blocking the regular content). A good example is YouTube ads. I’m also a happy NextDNS user, but I don’t browse the internet without an adblocker extension.

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