Those visualizations on the pi-hole look great indeed!
> "Pi-hole has automatic updates to lists, [...] better community support than the routers with open source firmwares which are often quite bug-ridden (not to belittle the effort though)."
OpenWRT/adblock auto-updates lists too, and I can't speak for DD-WRT or Tomato, but I've been pleasantly surprised by the support and quality I met using OpenWRT. About support, my few questions got answered quickly on their forum and r/openwrt. On the software quality side, apart from the UI being slow (which seems reasonable, it's running on a cheap router), sometimes complicated by lots of options (but at least they're available, and an effort is usually made to hide the exotic options under an "Advanced" tab), and blandly bootstrap-y, I don't remember hitting any bug.
Thanks, my experience is with DDWRT & Tomato; though the developers had done a great job at bringing features found in expensive routers to cheap ones the bug fixes (especially security vulnerabilities) elude older models.
Where as 100$ routers with factory firmware nowadays get security updates quite regularly.
Those visualizations on the pi-hole look great indeed!
> "Pi-hole has automatic updates to lists, [...] better community support than the routers with open source firmwares which are often quite bug-ridden (not to belittle the effort though)."
OpenWRT/adblock auto-updates lists too, and I can't speak for DD-WRT or Tomato, but I've been pleasantly surprised by the support and quality I met using OpenWRT. About support, my few questions got answered quickly on their forum and r/openwrt. On the software quality side, apart from the UI being slow (which seems reasonable, it's running on a cheap router), sometimes complicated by lots of options (but at least they're available, and an effort is usually made to hide the exotic options under an "Advanced" tab), and blandly bootstrap-y, I don't remember hitting any bug.