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View guide →Pi-hole — a black hole for internet advertisements: network-wide ad and tracker blocking at the DNS level, for every device in the house, from one small box
Pi-hole is an open-source self-hosted project by pi-hole (pi-hole/pi-hole on GitHub). It has 61,305 GitHub stars and 3,323 forks, is released under the Custom (check repo) license, and was last updated on GitHub on 17 October 2026.
On a Raspberry Pi or any Debian/Ubuntu-class machine, run the one-step installer from the README: curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash.
Set Pi-hole as the DNS server in your router (or enable its built-in DHCP), so every device starts resolving through it.
Open the admin interface to watch blocked queries, add blocklists, and whitelist anything a service you use actually needs.
Ads and trackers blocked at DNS level for every device — phones, TVs and IoT gadgets included, no per-device installs.
A live dashboard of DNS queries, top domains and per-client activity across your whole network.
Ships with sensible defaults and supports the large community-maintained blocklist ecosystem, plus per-client group rules.
Built for a Raspberry Pi; equally happy in a Docker container or a tiny VM.
The README automated install on a supported OS.
curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bashClone and run the installer yourself, per the README.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole.git Pi-hole
cd "Pi-hole/automated install/"
sudo bash basic-install.shPi-hole also publishes an official container image (pihole/pihole) if you prefer containers to a bare-metal install.
docker run -d --name pihole -p 53:53/tcp -p 53:53/udp -p 80:80 pihole/pihole:latestThe Pi-hole community project (pi-hole/pi-hole on GitHub), maintained by a volunteer team.
Yes, free and open source — check the repository for the exact licence terms. Donations keep the project going.
Occasionally a site needs a domain that blocklists catch; the dashboard shows exactly what was blocked and whitelisting takes seconds.
Against a browser ad-blocker like uBlock Origin, Pi-hole is broader (every device, not just one browser) but coarser — it cannot hide page elements or block in-video ads served from the same domain. Against AdGuard Home, its closest rival, Pi-hole has the larger community and blocklist ecosystem; AdGuard Home counters with built-in encrypted-DNS upstreams.
curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash on a Pi or Linux box, then set it as your router DNS server.
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