Your favorite Pi-Hole!
If you are not a masochistic internet surfer you are running one or more Adblockers on your browser of choice- Adblockers are cool because they sift through everything coming into your browser and block out the annoying bits called "Ad's"
I don't use mobile devices much but I do know that unless you use Brave browser on ios or Android the other browsers/Apps do not allow you to install adblockers-
I have had a raspberry Pi 3 sitting around for awhile now and decided to put it to use as a Pi-Hole-
Pi-Hole site https://pi-hole.net/
When you run a Pi-Hole your internet traffic goes through the Pi-Hole before it touches your devices so the Pi-Hole removes/blocks the ad's before your devices read them-
So it allows you to block ad's on all devices- it works really well- You still need to run an Adblocker to catch the pesky crap that gets through- I use Ublock Origin + Ublock Origin Extra- and in conjunction with the Pi-Hole I'm not seeing any ad's at all anywhere-
The Pi-Hole dashboard lets you monitor what its been doing- since I've been using it for a few weeks now- It seems between %18 - %30 of my incoming internet traffic is ad's that the Pi-Hole is blocking-
Blocking this junk will save you time and increase the performance + battery life of your devices-
I thought setting up Pi-Hole would be a weekend project but it only took about 15 minutes as my Pi was already running- just needed to install/configure Pi-Hole- you can spend more time on it adding new blocklists-
For my next weekend Pi project I'm going setup my own BtcPayServer instance...Brought to you by professional weirdo M dot Strange.