[EEGator]

WTF is a pi-hole?
Something to do with a Raspberry Pi?

[Bonemaker]

“WTF is a pi-hole?
Something to do with a Raspberry Pi?”

I always thought it was a big mouth.

[Robert DeLong]

Pi-hole is a Linux network-level advertisement and Internet tracker blocking application which acts as a DNS sinkhole and optionally a DHCP server, intended for use on a private network. It is designed for use on embedded devices with network capability, such as the Raspberry Pi, but it can be used on other machines running Linux, including cloud implementations.

Pi-hole has the ability to block traditional website advertisements as well as advertisements in unconventional places, such as smart TVs and mobile operating system advertisements.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

It does. It is an add blocking DNS server you run on a Pi (and some other hardware as well). It runs internal on your network as your DNS server bypassing your ISP DNS server. It is fast and efficient. It eliminates 95% + ads you see browsing.

You can even run it where it becomes a high level server querying the root servers, and not relays. That slows it down a bit on the first query to a domain record, but that takes some maintenance.

Running it vanilla takes no maintenance other than updating it when new releases come out. I have taken an old PC and installed Pi-Hole on it for some corp clients. They don’t like all the ads either.

As a bonus Pi-hole blocks known malware domains.

[Does so]

"WTF is a pi-hole? Something to do with a Raspberry Pi?"

Pi are round. Cornbread are square.