On my previous article I’ve been disabling my ad-blocker to feel like a vanilla user with no experience at all in using a computer and it was a catastrophe experience on a vast majority of websites I was browsing.
Instead of a simple extension on your browser which will use computing resources, slow page rendering, you can go to a more radical way with Pi-Hole.
This will cost you at most 50 € with a Raspberry Pi 3 for a lifetime efficient ad/social/whatever you want blocker!
Pi-Hole is a network wide ad blocking application that filter all the traffic from your network and delivers it through a DNS server. So instead of taking some heavy resources on your computer with a browser ad blocker like uBlock Origin or LuLu as a blocker for computer wise network filtering, you get it on your full network! How handy!
What are the pros:
- Full network filtering: which means that all your devices at home will be filtered. Even if some friends and family joins
- Increase Internet speed: yep! True and verified. As you’ll cut all trackers/ads/and other unwanted traffic, your pages will load at least 2 times faster on most cases. You can even do some page loading comparison to check. Make sure you are connected to a 1 Gb/s Ethernet cable for optimum speed
- Mobile through VPN: you can filter your traffic as well on your other devices that supports VPN’s. This will enable you to move with your filtering rules everywhere you go.
The couple Pi-Hole + WireGuard (VPN) is a great combination to keep battery usage low on your mobile phones while being connected to your PiHole.
Quick list of tutorials about PiHole and WireGuard setup:
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