Hi all - please tell me if I’m doing this wrong:
My 12yo spends all day on YouTube shorts. I want to block it, but can only block YouTube entirely. Blocking for everyone would upset my 15yo, so I need per-client domain filtering.
That was easy on Pi-hole. But my Raspberry died and I heard praise for Adguard Home so now I run that as a Docker container.
- I can’t figure out how to block YouTube for only some devices. Is that not possible with Adguard? Claude gives me complicated nonsense; you can easily do better.
I want to ditch Adguard and go back to Pihole. The caveat is that I must let Pihole run the DHCP server, in order to get correct per-client blocking. That’s a pity, as I have a neat UniFi network set up.
- Can I get Pihole’s per-client blocking without Pihole as DHCP?
I don’t mind setting it all up in Pihole again (as yet another container) because I know it works (it’s how I had it before the Raspberry died). But I would love to know if I am going about this the wrong way? Thank you!
Adguard Home can do per-client filtering, if you go to Settings > Client Settings, then add a client and you can choose all the options.
No need for DHCP on Adguard to be enabled to do that.