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Home & network privacy, ranked by value — not ad spend

Local-first smart home control and network-wide ad blocking. Your house shouldn't report to anyone's cloud.

No paid placement. Ranked by evidence against four principles: transparency, value density, privacy, efficiency. How we rank →
Our pick
Pi-hole — Network-wide ad & tracker blocking 5.0
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1 Pi-hole
Network-wide ad & tracker blocking
 5.0 self-host ~
2 AdGuard Home
DNS-level blocking in a single Go binary
 4.8 self-host ~
3 Home Assistant
Local-first smart home, no cloud required
 4.5 self-host ✓

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