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Today, we’ll see how to install an ad blocker for your entire network in 15 minutes. We’ll use Pi-Hole, which is a famous ad-blocker for Raspberry Pi.
Pi-Hole is a free and open-source ad-blocker. The source code is available on GitHub, and can be installed on Raspberry Pi OS with one command line: curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | sudo bash
In this post, I’ll start by introducing Pi-Hole, then show you how to install it and configure it on your network.
By the way, Pi-Hole is one of the many projects I introduce in my book “ Master your Raspberry Pi in 30 days “. So, if you are really interested in improving your skills on Raspberry Pi, I highly recommend it. It’s a 30-days challenge from beginner to master, with step-by-step tutorials and many projects to practice along the way.
As I said in the introduction, Pi-Hole is a free and open-source ad-blocker. It’s different from AdBlock or other browser extensions because it’s directly on the network, it’s a DNS ad-blocker.
Pi-Hole has existed since 2014, and it works on most Linux distributions. It’s available for Debian-like distributions (Debian, Raspberry Pi OS, Ubuntu) and also Fedora/CentOS.
By the way, I have a tutorial on how to set up Pi-Hole on Ubuntu here . Whether you’re using a Raspberry Pi or another computer, it might be interesting for the Ubuntu users reading this.
You probably know or use AdBlock to get the same results. But AdBlock depends on your browser. If you have AdBlock on Google Chrome and switch to Firefox, ads are back. Also, it’s not possible to use it on mobile (or at least with any system/browser).
A DNS ad-blocker is easier to manage because once you install Pi-Hole, you can use it directly with any device on the same network. Just set your DNS server with the Raspberry Pi IP, and that’s it, you don’t have ads anymore.
I recently tested AdGuard Home, which is an alternative to Pi-hole. You can read this article to find out the differences and pick the one that’s best for you.
Let’s move now to the installation process, it’s straightforward.
Pi-Hole is a lightweight software, and it’s designed especially for Raspberry Pi. So, you can use it with any Raspberry Pi model.
In my case, I’m using my Raspberry Pi Zero for this ( I have this kit ), it’s working very well.
If you don’t have a Raspberry Pi yet, you can follow the same procedure with a Linux computer, or even a virtual machine running on Linux.
Pi-Hole is working on Raspberry Pi OS, so there is no need to take a specific SD card or buy a Raspberry Pi just for this. You can use any Raspberry Pi you have. If you already have one running all day, you can use that one.
If you need to install Raspberry Pi OS, check my guide here on how to install it on Raspberry Pi . Raspberry Pi OS Lite is fine if you don’t need the graphical interface for something else.
Before continuing, make sure you have:
Pi-Hole is available on this GitHub repository , and they have a one-line command to install it easily.
The installation starts with an ASCII art 🙂
Ok, it was a long wizard, but basically, you can just keep the default value for each screen 🙂 You can change everything later with the web interface.
After this, the installation process continues by downloading and installing new packages based on your choices.
Don’t miss the last screen as it will give you the web interface address and the login password:
I’ll explain the web interface in the next section. But before that, we need to tell the clients to use the new DNS server.
The easiest way to configure all devices at once is to change your DHCP server configuration. At home, it’s probably your Internet router that takes this role.
I’ll not explain this in detail, as it’s different on each router. It can be in the DHCP settings or in the DNS settings.
The only thing to do is to remove all values and set the primary DNS server as 192.168.1.17 . That’s my Raspberry Pi IP address, set it with your own. Don’t set a secondary IPv4 DNS server, except if you have two Raspberry Pi with Pi-Hole on your network.
This way, any device using DHCP will now use the Pi-Hole ad-blocker from your network as a DNS server. It can take a few hours to update the device settings on all devices, be patient or disconnect/reconnect them manually.
If you don’t have access to these settings or want to make a try first, you can edit only your computer settings:
On mobile , it’s in your WiFi settings. Click details or edit network on a network to see the DNS configuration.
Pi-Hole comes with a great web interface, let’s check this now.
To access the web interface, open your browser and go to http:///admin In my case, it’s http://192.168.1.17/admin
If you didn’t note the IP address during the installation wizard, you can find it with “ifconfig.”
Once on the web page, click Login and enter the password you got previously. If everything is correct, you’ll get something like this:
On this page, you can see all the statistics about your Internet usage:
There are also graphs about queries and clients’ evolution in recent hours. Two pie charts show data about query types. And below (we don’t see it in the picture), it lists top domains and top blocked domains, and the same thing for clients.
That’s pretty cool, and it’s only the first page 🙂
In the main menu you’ll find links to the other pages and sections:
If you have any questions about one menu item, leave a comment in the community and I’ll try to help you
Let’s look especially at the settings part now. When you click on the “Settings” menu item, you’ll get 7 tabs with settings forms:
Basically, you can edit here all the things you previously chose in the installation wizard.
Before ending this tutorial, there are a few other things you need to know about Pi-Hole.
As you can guess, domain blacklists are changing every day. Like antivirus software, you need to update them regularly to maintain good protection.
To do this, go to Tools > Update Gravity and click on Update .
Pi-Hole will download each blacklist file from the specified sources and reload the configuration.
The other thing you need to update is the software. Pi-Hole is releasing updates and fixes regularly, so you need to update it.
To do this, the procedure is simple:
Is there a way to use Pi-Hole to block more than ads domains? Yes, you can add your custom domain names and list. So, you can use it to block any domains: not safe for kids, specific domains, or websites known to install malware.
What can I do if it blocks a useful website? If you have websites that you often use not working after the Pi-Hole configuration, you can add the domain name in the whitelist menu to unblock it.
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That’s it, you know everything you need about how to install Pi-Hole on Raspberry Pi. I hope this will help you to remove ads and block undesired domains.
If you have any other questions, leave a comment in the community , and I’ll try to answer you. Thanks to share this post by using the buttons below!
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Fig. 9: Pi-hole installation summary

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Blocking ads and trackers on your devices typically requires manual labour on each individual device (e.g. installing an ad-blocker on your browser, another on your phone, and another on your tablet). In this guide you'll learn how to install and setup Pi-Hole, a general purpose network-wide ad-blocker, on a Raspberry Pi to block ads on any device connected to your home network.
Pi-hole is a general purpose network-wide ad-blocker that protects your network from ads and trackers without requiring any setup on individual devices. It is able to block ads on any network device (e.g. smart appliances), and, unlike browser add-ons, Pi-hole blocks ads on any type of software.
The general setup works as follows (Fig. 1). You install Pi-hole on your server (in this case, we're using a Raspberry Pi) and assign it a static IP address. On your router, you set the DNS primary server to the Pi-hole IP address. When a device connects to your home network, it gets the Pi-hole IP address as its main DNS server from your router. When your device looks up the address for a hostname, it contacts the Pi-hole. If the host is an ad or tracker and present in the list used, the request is instantly blocked. Otherwise, the lookup is performed on some upstream server of your choice (e.g. OpenDNS, Cloudflare, GoogleDNS, your ISP).
To deploy Pi-hole on your home network, make sure you have all of the following:
[^1]: This is usually available in home networks. Check your router's documentation for instructions and credentials.
Disclaimer: This guide is based on the official Pi-hole documentation but might not be up to date. This guide is more about giving an understanding of what pi-hole does and how you might want to configure it than a strict step by step guide. For up to date instructions on how to install and any specific issue please refer to the official documentation .
If you're starting with a fresh Raspberry Pi, start by installing Raspbian according to the Raspberry Pi documentation . Then, be sure to install git with the following command:
To install Pi-hole, you'll clone its git repository and run the install script.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole.git Pi-hole
The script will guide you through the installation steps and ask for your input to configure basic settings. Any settings you configure during installation can be updated later. At some point, it asks you to select an upstream DNS provider (Fig. 2). This is the server on which lookups of non-blocked hostnames will be performed.
Then, it will ask you to select an adlist. We suggest you leave the default on (Fig. 3). Later, you'll be able to add more lists, including custom ones, if you wish to.
Pi-hole is able to block ads on IPv4 and IPv6. Unless you have a specific reason to disable any of those protocols, you can leave both on (Fig. 4).
It also includes a web interface which you can access to manage your Pi-hole instance. If you're comfortable with command line usage, you can skip the web interface (and server) installation. Otherwise, we suggest you install it (Fig. 5), as well as the corresponding web server (Fig. 6).
You can choose to log the queries answered by your Pi-hole (Fig. 7), and set a privacy level dictating which kind of logs are stored (Fig. 8). If you're sharing your Pi-hole instance with other people, beware that logs may leak private information (that will be visible to you), so choose your privacy levels accordingly.
When the installation is finished, you'll get a summary message that includes the IP addresses of your Pi-hole and the randomly generated admin password (Fig. 9). Be sure to save this somewhere (either screenshot or pen & paper) as you'll need it later.
Click OK to conclude the installation. To be sure the installation succeeded, open a web browser and go to http://IP_ADDRESS/admin , where IP_ADDRESS is the IPv4 address of your Pi-hole device (Fig. 9). Note that the http://pihole/admin only works after you setup your device to use the Pi-hole DNS server. Click on log-in and enter your (randomly-generated) password. You should now be in the Pi-hole admin panel (Fig. 10).
Now that you have Pi-hole installed, the last step is configuring your network to use Pi-hole as its DNS server
The preferred method for doing this is to change your router's DNS server and point it to the Pi-hole IP address, ensuring any client that connects to your network receives the Pi-hole as its DNS server. Typically this requires you to access the router's administration panel. There, you should have a field to set the primary and secondary DNS servers. Set the primary address to the Pi-hole's IP address, and reset any open network connection you may have on your devices. Now, when you connect to your home network, you should get the Pi-hole as the DNS server.
However, some routers do not allow you to change the DNS settings. In this case, you can set the Pi-hole as your DHCP server (and in doing so, you need to disable your router's own DHCP server). Refer to the official Pi-hole documentation to learn how to do so.
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Con esta guía aprenderás a insertar manualmente registros DNS para ciertos tipos de hosts conocidos (por ejemplo, servidores de anuncios, rastreadores, sitios web de malware) y dirigirlos a una dirección vacía, de modo que esas solicitudes queden bloqueadas en tu dispositivo. A diferencia de las extensiones del navegador, el bloqueo de anuncios a nivel del DNS funciona en *cualquier* aplicación o servicio que se ejecute en tu dispositivo, no solamente en tu navegador.
Normalmente, Bloquear los anuncios y los rastreadores en tus dispositivos implica realizar tareas manuales en cada uno de ellos (por ejemplo, instalar un bloqueador de anuncios en tu navegador, otro en tu teléfono y otro en tu tableta). Esta guía te mostrará cómo instalar y configurar Pi-hole, un bloqueador de anuncios de uso general para toda la red, en una Raspberry Pi, para bloquear los anuncios en cualquier dispositivo conectado a tu red doméstica.
In this guide you'll learn how to manually insert DNS entries for certain types of known hosts (e.g. ad-servers, trackers, malware websites) and point them to an empty address, so that those requests are blocked on your device. Unlike browser add-ons, DNS-level ad-blocking works on any application or service running on your device, not just your browser.
Con esta guía aprenderás a insertar manualmente registros DNS para ciertos tipos de hosts conocidos (por ejemplo, servidores de anuncios, rastreadores, sitios web de malware) y dirigirlos a una dirección vacía, de modo que esas solicitudes quedarán bloqueadas en tu dispositivo. A diferencia de las extensiones del navegador, el bloqueo de anuncios a nivel del DNS funciona en cualquier aplicación o servicio que se ejecute en tu dispositivo, no solamente en tu navegador.
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In this Raspberry tutorial, we will be setting up a network-wide ad blocker called Pi-hole. Pi-hole works by acting as your DNS server and blocking domain names that are often affiliated with advertising.
What Pi-hole does is act as your DNS server . Your computers and routers will connect to it for DNS requests.
These DNS requests will then be filtered by the Raspberry Pi.
Any DNS requests that match a known ad host will be rejected, meaning the connection will never meet your computer. Therefore the ad will never be loaded by the devices.
Network-wide adblocking is a useful tool for stopping ads from appearing on devices that don’t have any easy to use adblock tool.
It’s also a handy way to improve your network performance and bandwidth usage as the number of files downloaded during normal web browsing will be reduced.
It also has the added side effect of potentially improving the security and the privacy of your network, as some sites use relatively dodgy ad providers.
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