It’s morning. You’re scrolling through Twitter or just any news feed of your choice and you see the following headline: “MILLIONS OF CUSTOMER RECORDS LEAKED IN DATA BREACH AT HOOLI!!” “HOOLI…”, you think to yourself and it seems familiar. Then it strikes you. You had signed up for a free…

Part 4: Access your Pi-Hole from anywhere! This is the fourth article in my ongoing series of posts, called Baking a pie to block ads, focused on using a Raspberry Pi to block ads at a DNS level. Part 1 covers the introduction (to servers, DNS based ad blocking and Raspberry…

Part 3: Setting up Pi-Hole on your Raspberry Pi Hello friend. This is the third article in my ongoing series of posts, called Baking a pie to block ads, focused on using a Raspberry Pi to block ads on your home network (and even outside of it, which I will cover…

Part 2: Setting up the raspberry pi, configuring Wi-Fi, SSH and VNC This is the second article in my ongoing series “Baking a pie to block ads” where I’m documenting my ad-blocking shenanigans using a home server setup on a raspberry pi. You can read the first part here, which…

Part 1: Introduction to servers, raspberry pi and DNS based ad-blockers. What? What is a server? A server is just a computer which “serves” other computers which connect to it (also known as clients). It might have a different hardware/software as compared to conventional computers, but in the end, it’s just that…