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Pi-hole vs Adblock Fast: catalog facts
Pi-hole	Adblock Fast
Free Free and open source under the European Union Public Licence 1.2, funded by donations and…	Free Free and open source.
Linux, Self-hosted, Web	Self-hosted
Blocks advertising in mobile apps and on smart televisions, not just browsers Covers every device on the network with nothing installed on them	Very low memory use on small routers Works with several DNS resolvers
Runs on Linux; it is not a program you install on a laptop Over-blocking breaks sites, and someone has to fix it when it does	Requires a router running OpenWrt Small project with a limited user base
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: EUPL-1.2	License: AGPL-3.0
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 24, 2026

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