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Setup a Raspberry Pi 3 to be a Pi-hole server for your network and block ads and trackers.
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A pi-hole is basically a black-hole for internet ads. The project is an open source ad blocking software at the DNS level.
The easiest way of installing Pi-hole is by running the following script
curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash
The script will do everything to install the software and convert your Raspberry Pi into a pi-hole.
Once done, you can open the web interface of the pi-hole. The web interface is simple to understand and easy to setup too.
Finally before moving on we set the DNS of our router to the IP address of our pi-hole.
To add lists apart from the one used at setup we go to Group Management>Adlists
My preferred lists are -
1) Normal Hosts - https://v.firebog.net/hosts/static/w3kbl.txt
2) Adguard List - https://v.firebog.net/hosts/AdguardDNS.txt
3) EasyList - https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easylist.txt
4) Privacy - https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easyprivacy.txt
5) Windows Spyware - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/master/data/hosts/spy.txt
6) Anti-Malware List - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/master/Alternate%20versions%20Anti-Malware%20List/AntiMalwareHosts.txt
7) Threat Intel by OSINT - https://osint.digitalside.it/Threat-Intel/lists/latestdomains.txt
8) Adult sites - https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/porn.txt
You can add all this together by adding the URLs separated by space. After doing so make sure to update the Gravity list by running pihole -g command or by heading to Tools and Update Gravity. This downloads the list and updates it.
To setup DNS over HTTPS on your pi-hole we use the docs given in the official website here.
Note - Go with the manual method as the automatic did not work for me.