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Hi,
ads are kind of annoying and they may potentially hold some sneaky scripts in case you have an unusual web surfing habit so i was looking for way to block them once and for all. Obviously the easiest answer to that is just installing a plug in for your browser that blocks ads well that may be good but recently a lot of website detect that and ask you to stop it in order to proceed. Hence why i went out and looked for more clever way to deal with and find out about Pi hole so here i would like to share it with you guys and how i ran it on my home network covering all my devices on my LAN from ads.
To start with i used a docker image which i ran it on my Qnap NAS i gave the container an IP and used it as my primary DNS server since Pi hole blocks ads using DNS after doing that i set up that dns ip as the primary dns to be distributed via DHCP to all the devices connected to my LAN results were really surprising the pi hole did a great job blocking most of the ads not only on the browser but even in apps since as mentioned above it work on DNS level ads get completely blocked it even blocked a lot of youtube ads but youtube is sort of a hit or miss but anything that lower the ad rate on youtube is more than welcome ! you also get A lot of management over what is blocked and what is not via the easy to use web interface the pi hole provide. Overall im happy with pi hole it's easy to run doesn't require much resources and did not affect my gaming experience at all.
ads are kind of annoying and they may potentially hold some sneaky scripts in case you have an unusual web surfing habit so i was looking for way to block them once and for all. Obviously the easiest answer to that is just installing a plug in for your browser that blocks ads well that may be good but recently a lot of website detect that and ask you to stop it in order to proceed. Hence why i went out and looked for more clever way to deal with and find out about Pi hole so here i would like to share it with you guys and how i ran it on my home network covering all my devices on my LAN from ads.
To start with i used a docker image which i ran it on my Qnap NAS i gave the container an IP and used it as my primary DNS server since Pi hole blocks ads using DNS after doing that i set up that dns ip as the primary dns to be distributed via DHCP to all the devices connected to my LAN results were really surprising the pi hole did a great job blocking most of the ads not only on the browser but even in apps since as mentioned above it work on DNS level ads get completely blocked it even blocked a lot of youtube ads but youtube is sort of a hit or miss but anything that lower the ad rate on youtube is more than welcome ! you also get A lot of management over what is blocked and what is not via the easy to use web interface the pi hole provide. Overall im happy with pi hole it's easy to run doesn't require much resources and did not affect my gaming experience at all.
