March 4, 2019
Block Ads and Trackers with Pihole in a Docker Container
Recently I stumbled upon Pihole, which is a tool that blocks advertisements and web trackers. The nifty idea of Pihole is that it is no web proxy as Privoxy but it acts as a DNS server in your network.
So, after installing Pihole, you setup your devices in a way that they use Pihole as a DNS server. Then, the device’s DNS requests for “good” domains are answered and DNS requests for known, blacklisted ad/tracker domains are not answered (= blocked).
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