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Is there much performance difference in ad blocking options? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Grass@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I'm currently using the blocklists included with unbound in opnsense on a mini PC and I have used pihole on a pi which now operates my 3d printers instead. I haven't tried any of the other network wide options. Has anyone made any blog posts or similar detailing performance testing of different options?

I have an 8 person household with each person having at least a phone and computer and probably some consoles or something. I haven't noticed any obvious differences but whitelisting seemingly can't be done in bulk efficiently with my current setup.

We are all going to be moving in the coming months so I am revisiting different aspects of the home network and trying to figure out what can be improved and if anything is irritating enough in it's current state to tolerate a potential performance loss.

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[–] chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Most self hosted DNS level blocking will be very fast as it is really easy to keep the block list in RAM. I hosted Pi Hole on RPi 3 and an over provisioned VM (4 cores and 4GB of ram lol). The only difference I’ve noticed is whether or not the device is hardwired. When my RPi was hardwired into the network, there was no notable difference between the two.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

Firstly, I absolutely agree you should be hardwiring any kind of infrastructure. But honestly, even over WiFi your main latency is going to come from the WAN hop to whatever upstream DNS you’ve configured.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

This is more or less what I was hoping would be the case. I'll be pulling down some of the drywall to run Ethernet beween floors so I won't need to worry about wireless being slower at least. I figure I'll just try the other blocking options and go with the one I find most pleasant.