How to Set Up a Pi-Hole System on a Raspberry Pi - Block Ads and More!
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Follow along to create a Little Red Advertisement Devouring Monster! Pi-Hole is a self-hosted, network-wide, ad-blocking system that runs on a Raspberry Pi Single Board Computer. A completed system will filter all your internet requests meticulously and only display what you want to see.
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Furthermore, Pi-Hole will stop devices from leaking personal information out of your network so if your IoT Fridge is spying on you going to be able to find out 😊. This can also pre-emptively prevent (hidden from you) Crypto-Coin mining from occurring on your network. This will protect your entire local network and data. You can even set up parental controls to censor adult content. Pi-Hole also auto-caches so the response time of your internet browser can be significantly faster if it has already cached the desired webpage information to your system.
Pi-Hole will create and operate as a Domain Name System (DNS) pathway for your internet system. With a completed system your Raspberry Pi Single Board Computer will take all the internet data coming in, filter it meticulously, and only display what you actually want to see. If particular data is blacklisted your Router/Modem won’t even be able to download/cache/pull it from the internet. This saves bandwidth. You set this up once and any internet-connected device (Phone, iPad, Smart TV, Computer, or IoT Toaster) will have its internet requests pass through the Pi-Hole system and filtered. This system is more efficient and better than downloading Ad Blocking Browser Add-Ons on each of your devices.
For clarity, there are three main ways to set up a Pi-Hole System. First is the easiest and the method I demonstrate in this video, using standalone hardware like the Raspberry Pi Single Board Computer. Another option is running Pi-Hole as part of a virtual machine. The other option is to run Pi-Hole containerised with Docker or Kubernetes. The latter methods are more technical and make it possible to efficiently multi-task with hardware. The Pi-Hole project is a great platform to jump into these bigger concepts but I will provide the most direct way to get Pi-Hole running on standalone hardware.
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0:00 Intro
0:14 Pi-Hole Overview
0:51 Flow of Data
1:38 Demonstration
1:43 Everything it can do
2:30 What You Need
3:05 Hardware Assembly
3:26 Software Installation
4:28 Install Wizard Run Through
6:53 Access Pi-Hole Web Interface
7:22 Router Settings
8:30 Demonstration!
9:12 Adding 3rd Party Block Lists (Updating Gravity)
11:49 Query Log (Blacklisting and Whitelisting)
13:05 Outro
I’ve watched at least 6 other TH-cam videos on getting a pi hole up and running and your explanation is by far the most detailed and clearest of the bunch. Great job, I’ve subscribed!
Glad it helped
fucking seriously. Thank you!!!!
Could not agree more with this comment! Your video is easy to understand, clear, and straight to the point. Well done sir!
Same bro
Yep same here. I’ve had issues with other videos and this is the clearest there is
A PiHole was one of the best additions I made to my home tech arsenal. The browsing experience is so different once you remove all the garbage. I also learned that my smart TVs make THOUSANDS of requests a day, trying to send or get data from their respective motherships. Sorry TVs, no way, you are there to display the picture from my consoles or Apple TVs, and nothing more.
When we first set up the Pi-Hole it was amazing to check the logs after the first night. There was thousands of requests being blocked between 1am and 4am from all our devices phoning home. Was happy to put a stop to that.
Smart TVs are only smart so they can get your info.
Your TV is making thousands of requests as it is programmed to make contact and get ready for further commands or services you use. If it can't connect, it keeps trying and just clogs up your network. The Alexa and Fire devices do the same. Battery life will reduce quite a bit, even on phones, if a lot of domains are blocked. Even a simple connectivity check is being blocked for Windows and Android. People have now resorted to Allow Lists to correct all the problems made by people creating lists.
The main reason is BlockLists put together by people that haven't a clue what they are doing, they just get everything a phone or TV connects to and block it, leaving users with errors, loss of functionality and a rubbish user experience.
I used the popular ones and they blocked cloud services, which broke most of the Internet. That's because in their race to get to the "mine is the biggest list", they never checked them or did any research.
Look how many boast about having a million sites in a blocklist, all of them have very little experience and spend most of their time clicking on ALLOW. The fewer the better, the default lists work perfectly well from PiHole and AdGuardHome.
I've read the pi-hole docs a couple of times, but this is the first time I've felt like it's something I could not only set up but maintain long-term. 10/10 tutorial.
You know something.. I watch a ton* of tutorials and these are broken down in such an effective way.
Such patience demonstrated!
Thanks for your very kind words 😊 hope some of them help you out too.
I set up Pi-Hole a couple months ago and reading articles online is so much quicker now. Thank you for spreading the word about this great software.
You are so welcome!
Re-setup today after not having pi hole since before I moved. Now I connected it to my phone with the guide linked in description. I love your explanation too.
I've been running pihole for a short period of time, setup from another site. But the adding of more lists was the icing on the cake. Thank you. Great video
Glad it helped!
You are a great teacher, detailed, efficient and to the point, thank you for putting this together. You have another subscriber!
Thanks you for your kind words 😊
Your video was excellent, fast walk through and clear. Excellent job and thank you!
this is defo the best pi hole setup video. extremely well explained and presented. thanks!
I agree with others - this is a great exposition of how to do Pi-hole. I tried it once before and managed to screw up my internet access but this gives me new confidence to have another go. Thanks!
This is definitely my favorite set-up video for the Pi-hole
you gotta increase the noise gate on your mic.
Right off the rip, your video quality is excellent, and you speak very clearly. Thank you!
Cheers mate 😊
Thank you for this video. It's very thorough and easy to listen to and follow.
I have watched a few other tutorials about making a PiHole and this is the best and easiest to understand.
Thank you for the kind words. We aim to make our guides as clear as possible.
Thank you for a great detailed video on pihole. I didn't know about adding more blocked domains on the pihole using firebog until I watched your video.
Glad it was helpful!
Perfect Explanation and at my pace. My pi zero is updating now and can't wait to get this started. Thank you so much.
So glad and thanks for your kind words 😊
@@Core-Electronics do i have to use ethernet cable or can i stick with wireless internet
Totally up to you, either way will work. I recommend using the Ethernet Connection.
@sus
its just going to work faster if you use the ethernet cable
Thank you for your effort, time and energy put into this video. As I see other comments, I am lucky as this is the first I am checking about this topic and it seems perfect. It is time to get the parts to put all together and forget about AD world as already I am fed up enough...
Have been so stressed about doing this for so long. You make it look soooo simple! I am of an age when the internet was a community based, philanthropic wonder! Yes, really I am that old and miss the handshake noises as I connect over 14.4 dial up🤣 I'm lucky in that I have a spare Pi. The Grandkids are visiting today, so will leave it till tomorrow. Wish me luck🤞🖖
Update: After getting everything up and running on the Pi, It turns out that the Plusnet One router doesn't allow you to change DNS addresses. WTF😡
Fantastic job thank you! Saturday first thing I'll be setting up Pi-Hole for my network. Thanks again!
Great to hear, the more people we convert to Pi-Hole the better! Clean up the internet 🧼🧽🌐
Thank you, not a moment dull! Liked and suscribed.
Yeeeehaww 😊!
This was such a well done tutorial, thank you!
Great stuff, thanks so much for providing this!
I really like your videos and thank you for making them. As someone who is actively trying to learn more about Raspberry Pi and Linux in general, this is incredibly helpful. I just want to add one small bit of constructive criticism; I notice that when editing the audio for your videos, you're using some sort of de-noiser to clean up the audio but you have it turned up way too much. Either that or you have a compressor that's way too aggressive. It's cutting out parts at the end and beginning of sentences where you speak with a little lower volume that really shouldn't be cut out.
That being said, the videos are informative and amazing and I appreciate you making them. Have a wonderful day!
Thank you. Finally got the Pi-hole up and running cause of you sire.
😊 Rock on!
Great guide man. Thanks!
Great instructions
Thank you.
Nicely done! very well explained, especially for folks that don't have the techno knowhow but would like a simple solution for blocking ads. The only difference with my setup is I've installed it using Raspberry Pi without the GUI, just makes it a bit lighter. I then SSH onto the Pi and run the commands required to setup the Pi along with Pi-hole. I currently have my Pi-hole running along side my pfSense firewall as the current offerings available on pfSense only offer pfBlocker which is somewhat broken. Again, nice job on your explanation of installing Pi-hole.
Thanks for your kind words and explaining your set up 😊 find it proper interesting
Very good video, you finally convinced me to pick up a Pi!
Thank you, this made things a lot easier.
Glad it helped!
I had no idea - gratefully received
Amazing tutorial. Thanks
This was an excellent review. 10/10
Amazing stuff!! Thank you so much!!!
Thanks man, you made this easy as pie
Can't thank you enough for this. Thanks!
Great Job .Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Youre great at presenting. Had to leave a comment.
Great informative video. I just finished my pi-hole download and configuration. I may have jump too fast on the 1-3 methods for the router. I do have the dd-wrt linksys router. I believe i may have added both methods 1 & 2 not thinking rushing through it. As this being I haven't had the chance to go back and make any adjustments to it will the pi-hole still function correctly you think? I guess Was just too excited for the first time (Novice) to get through it as it seems to be doing it's job now!! Thank again for the great video!
just set mines up with your video..thank you
Amazing 😇 best PiHole guide available in TH-cam!
Glad you think so!
Thank you for tNice tutorials very clear and concise tutorial. Look forward to more videos from u
STAR TREK THEME?! YES PLS Thank you for this video - it's amazing all the way through for beginners but the information that there is a star trek theme is #1 of the things I learned on this video
Live long and prosper 🖖 ❤️
Thank you for making this video! Amazing explanation!
First I could make work considering how many I have watched, many two at a time. I am so excited they are finally gone! Thanks, this is the first I've subscribed to in a while.
Yeew! 😊
Works like a charm.
Very happy to hear 😊
Thanks for this great video.
TNice tutorials guy's tutorial is more understanding than the others
I have been running my pihole for about 3 years now and really enjoy it shame about TH-cam finding a way around it but pihole works good for twitch what I use most of the time
What did TH-cam do? Is this no longer effective against TH-cam?
What a phenomenal video!
Naww, thank you 😊! - Tim
Great tutorial and excellent demonstration. Your guidance absolutely looks comfortable for beginners aswell.
Pro tip: It is advised to have at least two identical units with their own IP on one's network in case one unit stops working. Otherwise you're cut off the outside world. Most routers accept multiple DNS servers in their DHCP bulletin they hand out to clients.
I always have two up and running as redundancy, it helped me twice due to one having a seized power supply.
Cheers for you kind words and excellent advice! 😊
@@yoqino Uhm... which other one if you only have one? -> Error 404 Page not found.
That's why it's adviseable to have a second unit as a backup.
@@yoqino If the Google DNS itself is down, yes. That's why the makers of Pi-Hole added a bunch of other DNS options to choose from. You can even set your own ( well-known ) DNS provider in order to fine-tune and personalize your PiHole suiting your needs.
Not correct. If you are just referring to PiHole stopping working I will agree as it's not very reliable and does fall over and stop working regularly if it's not eating SD cards by constantly writing to them.
I have used AdGuardHome for 2 years on ONE Pi3, then a Pi4 and never had a problem, plus it does DoH/DoT as standard and can be updated by the click of the mouse in the main page which takes seconds, it has never failed as the program is far better and more professional. If you want fallback for PiHole errors/failure, set the secondary DNS on your router to NextDNS for example.
You're all using the PiHole wrong anyway as people that copy each others set up videos fail to understand the basics. Simply sending all DNS requests in plain text on PiHole does nothing for privacy, your ISP still inspects traffic and sells your data. Using it for adblocking doesn't work that well as things have moved on, the same for tracking and phone Apps mostly bypass the DNS.
You need to set PiHole as a recursive DNS server - there are some videos about how, also why this protects your privacy. The Internet has moved on and PiHole is still stuck in the past, it has taken so long to accept it has many problems and fix it, it will never catch up.
Why pay more and go to all that trouble of setting up new equipment as a firefighting technique because people writing PiHole keep making mistakes, or not fixing errors? They seem to take error reports as a personal attack.
I've never once had AGH fail on a Pi and it gets used constantly. PiHole had to be reinstalled every few months and I went through a number of SD cards due to the poor programming causing it to destroy them. I even used a workaround to stop the Pi writing constantly, but that only lasted a few months. The SD cards were all known brands from official sources, so not cheap fakes!
These work great for non Dns over Https devices. Doh for short. Most apps use doh these days and no longer works. Pihole is great but is no silver bullet for adblocking and network control. This is a great layer to add though and highly recommend it as a relatively simple addition
Thanks for the info. Pi-Hole definitely isn't the end of the line in the quest to get rid of ads but it's a great starting point.
that's so useful for beginners!
Glad you think so!
This is a cracking video but there's something up with the audio, keeps going loud & quiet while you're talking. Thanks for the video, I've downloaded this so I don't lose it as I'm going to get this set up when we move.
Too much compression
Great tutorial! Thanks.
I have a cellular modem/router combo (Verizon 5G) and I have a wired access point for the other end of the house. Where do I install the RaspPi/Pi-hole so all my traffic gets filtered? Do I have to abandon the router in the Verizon gateway so that my traffic can't avoid the Pi-hole?
Hi I wanted to have three functions for a pi-5 that I'm buying. would I be able to do this (ad blocker) and a NAS and retropi on the same pie or do I need to get a separate one for each one? thanks
Merci! Bien expliqué! ❤
If you dont want to buy a pi, raspbian os can be installed on an old laptop as well. done it and it worked.
Anyone sriously interested in privacy should run away from everything that has to do with Google. Especially their DNS.
What else do you suggest?
@@FloridaInvestorIt depends but there are many alternatives fpr most google products on the internet both for mobile and pc
@@FloridaInvestorcloudflare to start with. But ideally there are plenty of encrypted private dns, or just host it yourself
@@FloridaInvestor quad nine
Yet here you are, on TH-cam, owned by Google.
Thanks for the information. Can we access the pi hole system when away from the wifi range. Please guide
Thank you!
oh my god you guys are amazing, thank you so much for the simple explanation and an amazing place to buy all my random junk lmao
We need something like this for cars.
It is more and more evident that cars are the worst offender in terms of privacy theft and data leakage.
Cars nowadays also connect to the internet and they send out a lot of data about the users.
This must be stopped and allow owners to have their privacy back, have their internet browsing experience safe from ads or malware or spyware.
Is it possible to do this, even with a dynamic IP on the router? I live in an apartment in which I cannot get static IP..
Great video. Clear and simple. Just one question: I did the procedure on a CLI OS for performance. How can I tell the raspberry to load automatically pi-hole on startup? You know, in case the current goes off or I unplug it
Pi-Hole is configured to start automatically when the host device boots up. If it's on a Pi, and the Pi is off, just remove the power cable then plug it in again. That will boot the device and Pi-Hole will start. So I reckon you are sorted.
If not hit up this guide here to learn all about starting programs on boot with Raspberry Pis - www.tomshardware.com/how-to/run-script-at-boot-raspberry-pi
Do you have to plug it in into your router or can it be done with a wifi amplifier too?
Comparing the way you setup your static IP in the video vs your site, it looks like you enabled "Enable Manual Assignment" here, but in your site it's toggled off? I'm not very well-versed when it comes to networking, but does that setting need to be enabled?
I also have an ASUS router.
Otherwise, it seems to be working just fine! Thanks for the tutorial!
can you do a full tutorial from downloading a free vst till importing into soft soft please?? im new to the interface and software
I am very late to the raspberry pi game but I plan on building this project as a starter project. A question that I have is, does the native raspberry pie UI have some kind of browser to be able to get to the webpage noted in the tutorial or do I have to download something to get out to the internet?
not clear on this part, do you connect the pi to your internet provider and then to your router. does the pi have 2 ethernet ports to achieve this?
Is there a commercially available product available that will do the same thing?
You earned my sub ;)
Great video
Great video !
one question, the ads from android youtube app will be blocked as well?
Great vid.
I just setup the ad blocker on my network. Will this block smart TV ads as well? The targeted ads on the TV seemed to have gone away, but could be the time of day. The ads from Licensed Drug Dealers seemed to have disappeared.
Is there a way to use Pi-Hole to filter out commercials on sites like Tubi, and TH-cam? Would I be able to send my own A/V and control to my television using HDMI-CEC while the ads are going on, and then have it cease when what I want to watch is back?
I still have adds on chrome firefox i did every step, I see there its updating the queries that are been blocked but still adds. sometimes ads and sometimes not. can this works better or is this normal with pihole?
Nice Video!
It works for me at Websites.
But it doesnt work for youtube.
Ist there a possibility to block youtube ads? I would like to you it for Smart TV, becouse there I cant use Ublock
what if you disconnect the pi or it shuts off, will your router still work normally even without traffic going through the pi?
Is this still good especially for blocking youtube ads on mobile devices on the network?
I just set up AdGuard on a Raspberry Pi 4 with 8 Gb of RAM. Long story short, it slowed down my internet to about 150 Mbsp, down from 300+ Mbps. It also caused a noticeable lag in page loads, sometimes up to 6 or more seconds. I had to turn it off.
Is Pi Hole any faster or better? When I was researching it, they seemed comparable and AdGuard seemed to be a little more user friendly, which is the reason I went with it.
Will this affect someone who works from home and has their computer attached to the router or modem?
I know you already mentioned that it works on TVs but does it work on LG TVs with WebOS? I specially want it to work with TH-cam on our home TV.
Thanks for this video, one of the biggest issues i seem to be facing is that whenever I set the DNS server and make the Pi go live, it blocks 99% of all traffic which comes through even though I am only using one of the blocklists!
Hello there
I am very interested in this. Will this stop ads from popping up during TH-cam videos also
thank you
Alan
I must ask, is there a known level of network bottlenecking involved with this setup? I know you said “in a blink of an eye”. But what if my whole family is using the internet, say three kids and two adults? And let’s say my internet setup normally would be just enough to handle this amount of traffic. Would the Pihole have an impact on speeds?
if it works on smart tv, does this mean the ads on youtube as well ?
Nicely video, Love from bangladesh and with subscribe done
Thank you kindly! 😊😊
Would this work with a gateway? Or is having a router a must?
it can block also youtube adds?thanks in advance
watching this after the youtube ad block drama. btw, will it block their ads? and you think it will detect it? last question, can i have this running all the time, or do i have to turn it off when i'm not on the internet?
When I wanted to do this, RPi was non-existent!! I used an old laptop instead, works great.
Love the creativity 😊
Got most of the way through this and realised my ISP given router only allows set DNS servers to be selected 😔 off to buy a new one tomorrow I guess
is it possible to make it that when i restart my pi that it like automatically starts everything up and opens the admin panel in full screen?
do you know if it is possible to have pi hole running and be able to still use the raspberry pi as a general desktop computer, or is it better to have a separate one do the task?
Pi-Hole doesn't take up too much CPU power so you can definitely do that. Take a look at Dockerising A Pi-Hole or Containerising a Raspberry Pi to figure out the best way to do so.
Not Raspberry smart so i have a question, Using the rasperberry pi as a Wi-fi point.... will this will filter similarly?
Can't find a Pi anywhere, unless way overpriced. Can I install custom firmware with adblocking on a second router and connect it to my ISP router via LAN?
Check the description 😊. Also there are other ways to take advantage of the Pi-Hole software, I mention in the guide Running a Pi-Hole on a Virtual Machine, Docker or Kubernetes.
Great video thanks. I can't update my gravity tho after adding lists I get DNS unavailable error.
Cheers mate 😊. And that is no good. If you check the full written up article it'll demonstrate an alternative way to update Gravity, that may be your solution.