Hey guys, I recently bought an orange pi zero 2 and, as the title suggests, I want to put an ad blocker on it. Those are the options. I also will put openvpn for external connection to my network. Does anyone have experience with them? What would you suggest?

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    1 year ago

    Heey iam using pihole for a few years now i realy like that it works good with no problems so far. Even have unbound pared wirh it and for tunneling home i use wireguard never tried adguard or blocky

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      1 year ago

      Another vote for PiHole.

      Also, thanks for turning me on to Unbound. Which Pi are you running those services on and how’s the performance?

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        1 year ago

        Iam running it a raspberry 3b its doing fine we are with 3 ppl in house so there are not that many request

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        1 year ago

        No the one you asked, but I’m running pihole on a lenovo M93 (fedora server) with 8Gb of ram. No kill like overkill, I guess.

        The only time any of the cpu cores pops above 1% is when I’m updating the config, and at the moment it is hovering at 293 MB of RAM used according to the free command.

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          1 year ago

          Ha — no kill like overkill. Indeed! Thanks for sharing!

          I’m currently running pihole on a Pi 3B. It’s been solid for about a year on that hardware.

          I’m going to do a little digging on the compute needed per WireGuard connection. Cheers!

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      1 year ago

      I’ve read about unbound but not knowledgeable enough to understand what it does. Could you king of eli5 it to me? Also, is wireguard better than openvpn?