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Is there any reason to prefer uBoL over Pi-Hole/Adguard Home?

• zamadatix 10mo ago
  Those are DNS only adblockers.
• egypturnash 10mo ago
  It works when you are outside your home network, without the additional rigamarole of setting up a VPN for all your devices to pass their internet through your home server.
  • muppetman 10mo ago
    Home Adguard Home works regardless of if I'm at home or not, without a VPN. I'm on Android though and I just set the Private DNS setting - I have a domain and point it at that. I dunno if you can do Private DNS on iOS though?
    • temp0826 10mo ago
      NextDNS setup has an iOS(/macOS) configuration profile generator which allows you to "lock down" the dns (and use DoH).
      • muppetman 10mo ago
        Oh sweet this is good to know, I want to set this on my daughter's iPhone (if/when we get her one)
• figmert 10mo ago
  Pihole/adguard are great, and while their function overlaps with uBo, they are still different. You should use both. UBo (and uBoL) have additional rules that can clean up pages. E.g. removing containers of ads. It does much more too.
• ivanjermakov 10mo ago
  Absolutely. Pi hole does network blocking via DNS, uBoL does blocking via DOM queries.