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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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!

  • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    Between my network and the ISP modem, I habe a UniFi router. That’s the one I tell to send DNS requests to Pihole.

    The only way to get around that is by setting e.g. 1.1.1.1 into the local computer’s network settings. My boys aren’t that tech literate - yet.