# AdGuard Home

48 Hacker News commenters recommended AdGuard Home and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 13 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Network-wide DNS ad blocker people run at home so every device goes ad-free; the common caveat is that allow lists take a while to tune.

## Why people recommend it

- Blocks ads on every home device (6 comments): "it works wonderfully. Any device that is on my local network, ads blocked." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49749498)) "I'm also using AdGuard as my home WiFi DNS server and I'm seeing zero ads" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47290920)) "never see ads on any machines you own again even on cellular" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49744280))
- Easy to set up and maintain (4 comments): "Finally, fast and one-click adguard home, what's not to like." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48830851)) "I’ve found AdGuard Home very easy to maintain" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48472550)) "This was all pretty simple to setup given hardware that supports VPN, DDNS, etc." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49985290))
- Reliable, runs without fuss (3 comments): "It's probably the software I trust the most on my network to 'just work'" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570383)) "the redundancy at home has saved my skin during several Proxmox reboots" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694814)) "It's been rock-solid for me, and improves on pi-hole in various ways" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570261))
- Fast internet on modest hardware (3 comments): "a tiny little AdGuardHome process and a port-forward in the router isn't using anymore power/effort" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46212407)) "Combined with the adguard + unbound dns setup, my internet connection is amazingly fast" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47514857)) "This setup absolutely crushes the performance versus top spec consumer-grade routers" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46702100))

## What people warn about

- Tuning allow lists takes time (2 comments): "It took me a long time to get the allow lists dialed in, but I think it was still worth it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46304703)) "it would give you more benefit for the amount of time/effort required" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45801602))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Pi-hole](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pi-hole.md): 136 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "AdGuard Home", https://hackerapproved.com/p/adguard-home/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).