How To Set Up Pi-hole®
Block ads for all devices inside your network with the Raspberry Pi
Introduction
If you are looking for a little toy project to pass some time during these days or if you are searching for a new purpose for your old Raspberry Pi, then this project may be for you.
In this tutorial, we will install Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi to get rid of all the annoying advertisements (ads) you encounter on the internet. If everything goes according to plan, then all devices inside your network (Mobile phone, Laptop, Desktop…) will never be bothered by ads again without additional configuration for each device.
What is Pi-hole?
Pi-hole is acting as your preferred Domain Name System (DNS) server which associates various information with domain names and filters out ads before they are reaching your device.
Instead of seeing ads about some business gurus trying to sell you their bullet-proof marketing strategies, you will just see… nothing.
Pi-hole offers several advantages, such as
- Network-wide protection
- Block in-app advertisements
- Improve network performance
- Monitor statistics
