The futility of Zenarmor in Opnsense

[yeraycito]

Zenarmor started as Sensei and at the beginning it required a huge amount of resources to work, later those requirements were lowered but it still did not work well giving problems of all kinds and today it still does despite the time elapsed, a good example of this is the new update 1.4 that despite having had its testing time is a real disaster including subsequent patches which is incredible. Suricata is a good example of user-friendly integration with its Telemetry rules that provide an extra benefit to Opnsense, however, Zenarmor in its free version is still a bad and cheap ad blocker with very limited settings and features, provided it works well, which it never does. It doesn't even bother to work in the Wireguard interface. Without going any further, Adguard or even Pfblocker do it much better and without needing so many resources for its operation. Does it make sense today to keep Zenarmor as a plugin? Clearly not, it would be much better for Opnsense users that Franco integrates Adguard as has been done with Wireguard-kmod and Zenarmor is abandoned. If something works and benefits users it should be promoted, but if something like Zenarmor not only does not provide any value but it is a real disaster better to abandon it and replace it with something better.

[athurdent]

If you are only looking for AD Block functionality, Zenarmor is a bit oversized.
You can simply put something like https://dbl.oisd.nl/ in the build in Unbound custom Block List feature and be done with it.

[almodovaris]

It's a business relationship, and it should not be broken without a serious reason. The fact that some users don't like it isn't a serious reason, since other users like it.

It can be done with aliases, but it's complicated (above my pay grade), and not necessarily free of cost. I don't use Suricata since I don't expose the WAN.

Oh, yes, the mimugmail repository has Adguard.

[Cljackhammer]

What exactly is the purpose of this post. As with anything I life you have choices. Simply stop using Zenarmor and use Adguard. Your post here really means nothing in the grande scheme of things.