Block Ads on ALL DEVICES (Smart TVs) — Simplest Pi-hole Tutorial

Published at : 23 Dec 2025

Easily learn how to set up Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi for network-wide DNS filtering. This project improves privacy, speeds up your browsing, and reduces unwanted ads and trackers across all your devices — smart TVs, phones, and computers.

In this video, I’ll walk you through:
• What Pi-hole is and how it works
• Setting it up on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W (or any model)
• Configuring your devices to use Pi-hole
• Using community blocklists for more control over unwanted content

Raspberry Pi Zero W: https://amzn.to/4s5nlBE

Raspberry Pi Imager: https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/
Micro SD card used in video (32 GB): https://amzn.to/476FYeD

Pi-hole: https://docs.pi-hole.net/main/basic-install/
Regex filter mentioned in video: https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/1k5zxxf/blocking_ads_on_disney_plus/
Additional block lists: https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists?tab=readme-ov-file#pro

Follow-up video (block ads everywhere with Pi-hole + Tailscale):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hK53wIjtaE