If you are annoyed by advertising while surfing and want to cheat the trackers from Google and Co., the free software is just right for you.

Ad blocker Pi-hole: Use Raspi as a DNS server with integrated ad blocker What is DNS? Block advertising with DNS Installation Privacy Modes The web interface Final remark Article in Make Magazine 5 / 2020 read I get annoyed by online advertising very quickly. They – and especially the countless scripts that come with it – make websites load more slowly. But the fact that blinking and attention-seeking advertisements bothers me is only one side of the problem. The other: I don’t even want to know how many tracking databases of global advertising networks my data is ending up in at this moment.

Now everyone can install an ad blocker in their browser, as most Solves problems. But what about the smartphone? With the intelligent refrigerator, the work laptop, the IoT device? Advertising networks are also called not only from the web browser, but also from other programs: driver suites, chat programs, even Windows itself integrates advertising. At this point, I would like a central solution: My network at home should simply no longer talk to advertising networks. So if I can get my router, through which all data traffic flows into the Internet, to prevent communication with unwanted servers, I have achieved my goal.

The free software helps the data-saving maker here Pi-hole . I will guide you through the concrete installation of Pi-hole below, beforehand I will explain the functional principle.

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