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What is this mystical pi-hole you speak of? Sounds like I need it.
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https://pi-hole.net/It's a very lightweight Linux program, designed to be run on a Raspberry Pi single board computer. Basically, you configure it on your home network (it's really easy) and then tell your router to point all DNS requests through the Pi-hole's IP address. A DNS lookup occurs whenever you open a new URL. It converts www.ar15.com to 3.20.85.27, which is one of AR15.com's server addresses.
So, the Pi-hole comes loaded with a list of thousands of ad servers and their IP addresses, and you can load lists with millions more if you want. When you load a page, like Yahoo.com, that page has a whole bunch of embedded ads and their server's IP addresses in the HTML code. Normally, your browser would request the ad link/graphic from the ad server and it displays in your page.
But since your request first goes through the Pi-hole, the IP address is checked to see if it's on the blocklists. If it is, the request is intercepted and sent to nowhere, aka, the pi-hole. That means that the ad server is never actually queried and that ad never loads on your page. The actual page you want now loads faster, uses less data and doesn't assault your eyes with obnoxious ads.
Here's what the top of my Pi-hole admin page looks like.