Adverts are extremely common on the internet with almost every website running at least one advert per page.

Many apps and smart devices also include adverts that you cant block with a traditional ad-blocker.

As with traditional ad-blockers, Pi-hole uses community created lists to block access to known ad-serving websites.

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Traditional ad-blockers prevent the surfing app from loading any resources from domains on the block-list by blocking the connection.

Pi-hole does come with a couple of disadvantages over a traditional ad-blocker.

The list of supported operating systems and system requirements can be foundhere.

The install guide can be foundhere.

Guides are availableherefor the process of configuring your online grid to use Pi-hole.

Updating Pi-hole is as simple as running the command pihole -up.