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How I like my pi (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This might be a good place to ask this. I was messing around with my Asus router setting last night and noticed that it had Ad Guard, which works similarly to PiHole with DNS. To test it I went to Reddit and saw ads still. Is Ad Guard not as effective as PiHole or Reddit ads are DOM based?

[–] TeddE 8 points 11 months ago

As a rule of thumb, I expect that Asus as a business only cares about adbock from two angles:

  1. A feature to slap on the box for advertising.
  2. A B2B feature for helping business management make workers more productive.

To the first, there's little incentive to ever update the lists after you've bought the device, so it's quickly outdated. To the second, it's like to be far more optimized for Amazon or Newegg, then for Reddit. Between the two, I don't generally expect them to hold a candle to pi-hole and similar software.

[–] SmoothIsFast 8 points 11 months ago

You need to flush your local DNS cache after turning that on for it to be 100% effective.