Making the ads go away with Raspberry pi and pi-hole #vijayatm

Having to watch the non-skippable ads or pages spamming with tons of ads when you just want to check your network speed is really frustrating. 

I've tried lot of adblocker extensions which are in-famously slow for how they work within the browser, then tried Brave Browser, which is really does a really good job with no latency what-so-ever.

Things used:

1. Raspberry pi 4 Model B with os installed

2. Power adapter for the pi

3. SD card

4. LAN cable


Pi powered on and booted up for magic

Install pi hole: https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole


Dashboard view of the pi-hole after using the machine for few hours


The magic here is it can work across any device without having to install ad blockers in each device, as this interacts directly with the routers dns


Refer linus tech video if case you need to set it up on your own: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBXTnrD_Zs4

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