Browse ad-free with Raspberry-pi and Pi-Hole
Well let’s get one thing straight no one like seeing ads while browsing so we are going to make your home wi-fi ad-free.
How? Pi-Hole.
Pi-Hole is a tool which has the capacity to block ads for all the websites you browse in a network where Pi-Hole has been installed.
How does Pi-Hole works?
- Once the Pi-Hole is installed on a device on your network, you start using it as your DNS server.
- Pi-Hole has the capacity to assign ip addresses using its built-in DHCP server, so it can act as a router as well.
- Once this is done all the internet traffic will flow through Pi-Hole.
- Pi-Hole has ad filter lists which contains urls for different ads.
- So when you are browsing Pi-Hole won’t let the request for ads pass through to real router.
- And the result will be ad free browsing, also Pi-Hole lets you Blacklist urls so you can play with it to make your network traffic more efficient and police the traffic as well.
How to install Pi-Hole on your network?
There are different options to install Pi-Hole but in order to enjoy ad-free browsing you need Pi-Hole continuously working in the background so installing it on the system or laptop doesn’t make sense as they have to be switched on all the time.
So Raspberry-pi comes to the rescue.
Raspberry-pi is a credit card size processor with enough ram and processing power to run Pi-Hole as well as wireless connectivity to connect to your home wifi.
I ordered Raspberry-pi 4 Desktop Kit.
This kit is a really good starter kit as it provides all the things necessary to boot up Raspberry-pi as a desktop by just assembling and connecting Pi with any display with HDMI input and start computing…
So let’s install Pi-Hole,
- Insert the SD card containing Raspbian into the Pi.
- Connect the Keyboard and mouse.
- Connect the Pi to a display using HDMI cables.
- Now power up Pi using the power cable.
- You will see Pi booting up on the display.
- Once Raspbian starts enable SSH and or VNC.
- Connect with your home network using ethernet cable or wireless.
- Now connect to Pi using your laptop wirelessly using SSH.
- Now it’s time to install Pi-Hole, run following command, more info
sudo curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | sudo bash - Follow through the setup and then using the Web Interface enable web filtering for ads by downloading ad list bundles.
- Now set the IP address of Raspberry-pi as DNS in your devices and that’s it…
Happy Hacking……!!!!
