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AdGuard Home is a network-wide ad and tracker blocker — DNS-based filtering at the router level, blocking ads, trackers, malware, adult content across every device on your network. Modern UI, custom blocklists, parental controls, DNS-over-HTTPS / DNS-over-TLS.
AdGuard Home is a network-wide ad and tracker blocker — DNS-based filtering at the router level, blocking ads, trackers, malware, adult content across every device on your network. Modern UI, custom blocklists, parental controls, DNS-over-HTTPS / DNS-over-TLS.
For households and small businesses wanting network-wide ad blocking with a modern UI, AdGuard Home is the leading alternative to Pi-hole.
Concrete scenarios where teams pick AdGuard Home over the SaaS alternative.
block at DNS for all devices
block trackers across the network
DNS-level malware domain blocking
block adult content per device
encrypted DNS-over-HTTPS / -TLS
If your team profile matches one of these, AdGuard Home is a strong fit out of the box.
wanting network-wide blocking
protecting employee browsing
filtering content for student networks
running their own DNS / network infrastructure
monitoring tracker behavior
When evaluating self-hosted options for this category, here are the dimensions on which AdGuard Home consistently lands above the alternatives.
The stack you'll plug AdGuard Home into — services, protocols, and adjacent apps in the BluixApps catalog.
adguard/adguardhome:latest (release-tagged)/opt/adguardhomeOperational guidance from running this in production — what to do before you scale, what to lock down, what surprises people.
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