What is Pi-hole

Pi-hole is a software tool which claims to:

• Provide network-wide protection
• Block in-app advertising
• Improve network performance
• Monitor statistics

Pi-hole can be installed on a number of devices, such as Raspberry Pi’s (hence the name!), Docker containers or remote AWS EC2 instances. Pi-hole offers network wide protection by blocking ads at the network level rather than a browser plugin. The main benefit to this is that it blocks in-app advertisements on mobile phones and smart connected devices. This protects user devices connected to your network from online trackers and advertisements without requiring them to install any software themselves.

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