AD-BLOCKING SOLUTION USING RASPBERRY PI-HOLE FOR ENHANCED WEB BROWSING EXPERIENCE

Abstract

The goal of this project was to create an ad-blocker that would function broadly throughout the network and prevent advertisements from appearing on any website's pages. In order to adequately describe it, we need to ban advertisements on the home network, which is connected to a tiny computer with a SoC (System on Chip), often known as a Raspberry Pi. On the home network, online sites containing advertisements are filtered using software called Pi Hole. Following this, every device—including PCs, laptops, and smartphones—is linked to the home network. After that, these devices are connected to the Pi, and the Pi is now the source of all network traffic. Eventually, the Raspberry Pi filters out the advertisements before they even get to the users' devices. Only when your devices are linked to the network that the Raspberry Pi is operating on will this configuration function. By removing the additional data that these advertisements use during the loading of a web page, this lowers latency and speeds up surfing in any browser. Additionally, by adding a group of websites or a collection of web pages to the Pi Hole software's white list, the user can disable the ad block on those specific websites or web pages.