Pi-hole Ad Blocking

Discussions center on Pi-hole as a DNS-based network ad and tracker blocker, including its features, limitations like only blocking DNS requests, setup tips, and comparisons to alternatives such as AdGuard Home and NextDNS.

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proaralyst Sep 20, 2019 View on HN

There's pi-hole but it's only a DNS blocker

2Gkashmiri Aug 26, 2021 View on HN

uhh.. does pihole have something for it?

sodality2 Jul 8, 2021 View on HN

I'd hope your PiHole at least resolves over DoH... if not consider AdGuard Home instead

eyeball Oct 29, 2022 View on HN

why would I use this instead of pihole?

lberk Nov 12, 2019 View on HN

Would something like pihole not work in this case?

bredren Nov 12, 2020 View on HN

Consider setting up a pihole locally or on a vps.

Larrikin Jun 22, 2025 View on HN

Why not just use AdGuard or PiHole?

agloe_dreams Oct 4, 2023 View on HN

A Pihole will do what you want with a ton of control added.

zeckalpha Jun 11, 2020 View on HN

Pi hole blocks at the DNS later, so non-browsers are also affected, e.g. IoT devices.

metadat Aug 1, 2022 View on HN

Would this likely break of goal of having / leveraging pi-hole?