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How to Install Adguard Home using Docker

October 20, 2021 Patrick 0

This article provides the required information to install Adguard Home using Docker. AdGuard Home acts as a recursive DNS resolver. It works at the network level and blocks advertisements and internet trackers. When a home router is setup to point devices DNS queries to your AdGuard Home installation it will block advertisements for your entire home. It is similar to other network level DNS ad blockers such as Pi-Hole.  This is a quick guide that can be used for most system architectures.  You can even use this guide to install AdGuard Home on a Raspberry Pi. 

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How to Manage Pi-Hole from Your Mac Menu Bar with Pi Stats

May 19, 2020 Patrick 0

Pi-hole is one of my favorite DNS level ad-blockers that can be self-hosted in a Docker container. After you install Pi-hole, occasionally it will become necessary to view the dashboard to see your network statistics, or even disable it completely for a short period to time in order to troubleshoot a network problem. In order to do that, you need to open up a browser and visit your Pi-hole dashboard, unless you are using iPhone shortcuts. To make that easier, Fernando Bunn, developed a very helpful swift application that allows you to control Pi-hole from the menu bar on your Mac.

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Pi-hole 5.0 is Out Now!

May 11, 2020 Patrick 0

After a successful beta testing period, Pi-hole has released version 5.0! Pi-hole is our favorite DNS level ad-blocker that helps block advertisements, trackers, and even malware from your entire network. The release of Pi-hole 5.0 has been anticipated since the beta program began back in January.

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5 Simple Apps for Beginners to Self-Host in Docker

April 26, 2020 Patrick 3

Self-Hosting applications is a good way to enhance the security of your data. In most cases, by using self-hosted alternatives to many popular services you are ensuring that your data can’t be sold to a third party for marketing purposes. This is a list of applications that you can self-host at home.

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How to Control Pi-hole from your iPhone Home Screen

April 20, 2020 Patrick 0

Sometimes in order to debug issues on your home network, you need to disable your Pi-Hole from filtering advertisements for a short period of time. Customarily, in order to temporarily disable filtering, you need to login to your Pi-Hole dashboard and select disable. Then, when you are ready to re-enable ad blocking, you need to log back into the Pi-Hole dashboard and click enable. Logging into Pi-Hole on a computer can be time consuming and inconvenient. Wouldn’t it be awesome if you could control Pi-Hole from your iPhone?

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Running Pi-hole in Docker is Remarkably Easy!

April 14, 2020 Patrick 6

Internet advertisements and trackers are everywhere. The websites you visit and your smart devices are constantly sending data to their manufacturers and advertisers. Pi-hole is a network-level ad blocker that sits on your network and uses blacklists to determine which DNS requests to block. Installation on Docker is easy.