Kevin gestured to the black ASUS router on his shelf, a faint blue LED blinking.
Then he blocked the big ones: doubleclick.net , facebook.com/tr , smart-fridge-telemetry.vendor.net .
He saw one query from his own phone: reddit.com . Allowed. Followed by: redditmedia.com . Allowed. Followed by: google-analytics.com . Blocked. adguard home asus merlin
Kevin Chen was a network administrator, which meant that after 8 PM, he did not want to administer anything. He wanted to watch his family stream cat videos in peace.
But lately, peace was a myth.
His old solution was a Raspberry Pi running Pi-hole. But two weeks ago, the SD card corrupted during a thunderstorm. He was back to square one.
Here is the story of how AdGuard Home found a home on an ASUS Merlin router. Kevin gestured to the black ASUS router on
AdGuard Home is running on port 3000
“It’s not the router,” he said. “It’s the wizard inside.” Allowed
His wife said, “That weird pop-up is gone.”