pi-holepi-hole
A black hole for Internet advertisements
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pi-hole (Shell) — A black hole for Internet advertisements
You want network-wide ad and tracker blocking covering devices that cannot run a browser extension.
Security & Privacy · Self-Hosted
Blocks ads and trackers at the DNS layer for your entire network, so every device benefits — the smart TV, the phone that cannot run extensions, the guest laptop. Point your router at it and it filters requests before they resolve. Runs on hardware as small as a Raspberry Pi, and the query log alone is educational: watching how often an idle phone phones home changes how people think about tracking. Shell and C, community-maintained. Two honest limits. DNS-level blocking cannot touch ads served from the same domain as the content, so YouTube is largely unaffected. And it becomes a single point of failure for your network — when it goes down, nothing resolves, so configure a secondary DNS.
You want network-wide ad and tracker blocking covering devices that cannot run a browser extension.
You expect it to block YouTube ads, or you cannot maintain a device the whole house depends on for DNS.
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