Interesting lockup bug with AdGuard and AdGuard DNS + Family Filter

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I have been struggling for the past few weeks to resolve a hang up with the Local app on my Mac. I finally narrowed down the user case to having both AdGuard turned on (the mac app) and having AdGuard DNS + Family Filter added at the router level. When both of these conditions are met, and I turn on the Local app, the app will freeze, without fail. If I turn off wifi or turn off AdGuard, or change the AdGuard DNS on the router, it fixes the problem.

Not sure why this specific combo causes this problem. I switched to Cloudflare’s DNS and was able to keep my AdGuard app as is. Solved the issue. Anyways, thought it might be useful to someone on the forum who may struggle with esoteric spinning beach balls of death. Try turning off wifi or any Ad block software (local or DNS level including pihole and things like that). It may resolve your problem!

And please do NOT just quit the Local app. I corrupted my DB and had to use the innodb flag to get it back online (which was a byzantine nightmare searching through Local’s cryptic labeling system in Application Support to directly add the flag. Thank God I was able to recover the data.).

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That’s a great find and thanks for sharing!

I could see how that sort of thing could mess with Local’s ability to resolve urls to the individual Local sites. Both of those tools are mostly concerned with locking down the kinds of URLs that are allowed, so great job figuring it out!

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