Every device on Maple Street was screaming into the void: “What’s the IP for doubleclick.net? Where is taboola.com? Please, I need more ads!”
That night, Kevin downloaded the latest Asuswrt-Merlin build. Flashing the router felt like performing surgery on a patient who was awake—one wrong click, and the family’s Netflix dies.
The Silent Filter of Maple Street
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.
He added the OISD blocklist. Then the “No Tracking” list. Then the “Phishing Army” list. adguard home asus merlin
Then he blocked the big ones: doubleclick.net , facebook.com/tr , smart-fridge-telemetry.vendor.net .
AdGuard Home is running on port 3000
/tmp/home/root# opkg install adguardhome