[rmrfrmrf]

PiHole has a web admin UI that's pretty slick. It has options to disable the entire thing indefinitely/for a set period of time if you need to, and it can log all DNS queries, so you can override/manually block anything you need. There's also nifty charts and metrics to show you how much traffic has been blocked.

I found that, after tinkering with blocklists for a bit, I turned off logging altogether and just let it run. The one thing that gives us grief occasionally is (unsurprisingly) tracking links from promo emails and social media. These are usually easy enough to bypass, but it can be a pain for non-tech-savvy people.

[fireattack]

Thanks!

Does it have "cosmetic filters" (the ones that block certain elements on page) or similar feature?

[dastx]

This is a feature that has been requested, but isn't implemented yet. Suggest you give it a thumbs up on github as they implement things in order of highest number of thumbs.

[crtasm]

Please don't, as explained in sibling comment it's not possible with DNS blocking.

[dastx]

It wouldn't be DNS blocking. The feature request on the project is about adding an HTTPS MITM Proxy that would then do the cosmetic filters among other things.

AGH already supports adding AdGuard filters, but for obvious reasons it only applies domain based 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

[crtasm]

Ah - fireattack's question was regarding Pi-Hole.

[tuxracer]

No. It inherently cannot. Pi-Hole isn't a proxy where all traffic is flowing through it and has a chance to be modified. Pi-Hole is strictly answering the question, "What is the IP address for this hostname?" If a given hostname is known to host trackers or something undesirable Pi-Hole will claim it's an unknown host so the device is unable to reach it.