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hello guys and girls me moodar and

today's going to be a little wild

technical video over here because you

know ad block is one of those things

that YouTubers probably will say don't

do it guys whitelist me now me

personally I don't care I just enjoy

that you watch my videos If I make a

buck out of them whatever it doesn't

really matter at the end of the day

because of the ad apocalypse I moved

most of my income streams outside of

YouTube and I Diversified because if

anybody is a YouTuber you'll probably

you probably understand if you do this

fulltime that uh the Youtube ad system

or relying on ad revenue and any website

is a bit of a Fickle uh thing it can be

stressful but to understand all right

ladies and gentlemen ad block is one of

those things that again for YouTubers

and I'm just going to State for the

record here I do not endorse on YouTube

mostly because it's actually against

YouTube's terms of service and I did

talk about this a while back that said

on the other hand I do believe ad block

is a necessary good for the general

internet right especially when you're

browsing any random website or dealing

with Shady advertisements that exist all

over now me personally I understand why

ad block exists I understand why ad

blocking Solutions exist Because the

Internet is far far more malicious when

it comes to advertisements in the last

few years okay so I've covered things

like malvertising where I've shown you

on actual like big search engines that

just entering in popular software like

OBS studio and then being accidentally

like thrown down into a hole where you

click on an advertisement right that

pretends to be OBS as an official

product you go to a fishing page you

download OBS next thing you know your

actual YouTube channels and your

accounts are hacked same thing with

things like tracking networks right

right obviously when you browse the

internet you may you may put on

incognito mode and think you're safe

you're really not or you might download

the most privacy focused browser and you

completely forget that the internet has

trackers all over on every website

cross- site tracking you if you go to

something if you go to website a and

then you go to website B surprisingly

Google Facebook and a lot of the big

tech companies already know where you're

going because most browsers

unfortunately leave a pretty unique

fingerprint and so trackers exist to

identify which specific browser

fingerprint goes to which specific

websites and of course the internet is

creepy in general when it comes to it

now ad block exists to protect you from

some of these malicious advertisements

and obviously if you whitelist

advertisements and YouTube channels

you'll see ads there but in general

terms for the internet you'll be I guess

relatively safe from some seriously

malicious ads that are designed to trick

you into actually giving up your

information or potentially leading you

places that can inject some pretty nasty

things into your system or expose you to

bad areas so instead of just downloading

ad block what about if we made our own

ad block and we made it system Network

wide now the reason why Network wide is

so important is obviously installing ad

block or U block or a lot of these

extensions on every single device isn't

exactly feasible and especially

considering if you have multiple people

living in your house even older people

that have no idea about how to even get

these things working you can automate

the process for the most part by setting

it up at the network level and you even

support devices that probably have

internet browsers but not the ability to

support any crazy extensions that also

get the benefit of ad blocking even if

certain devices have restrictions on how

you can place ad block you can always

set it at the network level so when

these devices request the internet the

ad blocker at the network level the

device we're setting up blocks access

immediately before the device would even

touch a tracker or a shady malvertising

Link in the first place but today I

decided to go out and buy myself a

Raspberry Pi mostly because I never had

one before I'm going to turn it into a

uh retro gaming console just for my

living room television but for this

video I'm going to turn it into

something known as a pie hole okay now a

pie hole is a specific device that

connects to your network and all of your

traffic routes through it and what this

device does it filters out all of the

tracking URLs the ads so every device on

your network gets the benefit of ad

blocking without actually installing ad

blockers so how do we get this going

well ladies and gentlemen get your

Raspberry Pi and this is where I got a

device shipped to me it came with a case

it came with an SD card with the

operating system already installed so I

put this thing together and lo and

behold I completely forgot that micro

HDMI is a thing so I sat in my car drove

to the nearest store picked up a cable

and actually started the setup process

now if you don't buy the SD card from

Raspberry Pi you can buy individual

components you can buy a 32 GB card

download a Raspberry Pi SD Imaging tool

and just install the operating system

and enable things like SSH which is very

important so I connected this thing over

to a monitor connected to keyboard and

mouse went through the setup process

went to the actual uh system settings

the Raspberry Pi settings enabled SSH

which allows us to connect to this

device through any computer's terminal

anytime down the road now of course to

understand okay even beyond all of it I

made sure to give the Raspberry Pi its

own IP address now to understand because

we're installing the ad blocking system

you need to make sure the Raspberry Pi

has a static IP address now this step

depends on which router that you have

some of the options are a little

different depending on which brand

you're using now I have an ASUS router

over here the gtax 1100 and generally

the idea is the same you want to go to

the landan settings on your router you

want to find out where the DHCP server

is and you want to go all the way down

and assign a manual IP address so

generally you should be able to open a

drop-down menu and find a Raspberry Pi

right so by clicking on this you can

give it a static IP address so in this

situation I gave it

192.168

5068 now no matter what I do every time

I connect this device to this router it

will always give it this specific IP

address versus randomly assigning one

that can ruin this entire ad blocking ad

filtering system that we have now at

this moment in time we're going to

connect into our actual Raspberry Pi and

install the pie hole software so using

any terminal and you don't need need to

use like Linux for this if you're on

Microsoft you can use the windows

terminal Powershell whatever Max you can

use a terminal Linux you can use a

terminal so the way that this works is

most terminals will have something known

as s sh which allows you to tunnel in

any of these devices now to understand I

want you to connect your Raspberry Pi

with an ethernet cord don't be using any

Wi-Fi [ __ ] that's going to make sure

all of the speeds related to this

process are bad ethernet over everything

connect it dedicated all right it

literally takes an extra 5 Seconds of

effort okay and a cable that's it so

anyways in this situation you want to

type in SSH and my Raspberry Pi's login

is honest last name and then you want to

do add for you know what IP you're going

with and because our IP is 1 1921

168

5068 as soon as we ENT enter It'll ask

you for a password so whatever password

you use to set up your Raspberry Pi

enter that in and boys we are connected

it says I am connected to my Raspberry

Pi so at this moment in time it's a

matter of installing py hole so if you

go to py hole. net which is their

website they'll actually give you you an

installation so click this install

button and it'll guide you through again

the one-step automated install so all

you have to do is highlight all of this

copy that and put it into your actual

terminal once you H enter it'll go

through run a few checks and then it

will start installing that installer and

then you can start proceeding with the

actual situation so again it'll take a

couple minutes depending on how updated

your system is but you're going to just

be fine okay it'll go through all these

NE Neary steps and you're just going to

wait until it actually gives you the

setup guide so once you get over here

you'll see this blue screen this

installer will transform your device

into a network wide ad blocker oh boy

all right let's get this started all

right so first things first hit okay

it'll ask you hey man this is a free

project so if you got some money donate

it all right feel free you know you you

don't have to worry do it if you want at

your own risk so again static IP needed

the pie hole is a server so it needs a

static IP we already gave it a static IP

buckos so all we have to do is basically

hit continue so here it'll ask you which

uh you know interface do you want

because we're using the ethernet we're

not using wireless land make sure it's

set to eth zero so hit enter and it's

going to ask you what is my Upstream DNS

provider now you can go with quad 9 you

can go with Google you can go with

whatever but just to make it easier for

us right now we're going to pick Cloud

flare okay that's pretty default option

right there and of course it's going to

rely on third party lists in order to

block advertisements so again just hit

yes and continue going and then it's

going to ask you do you want the admin

web interface if you want to configure

obviously we need yes a web server is

required do you want install the actual

modules hit yes now again it's going to

ask you if you want to enable query

logging so this is like if you're

somebody that really wants to make sure

you have no logs enabled hit no but just

for again you know General sanity sake

we're going to hit yes to this so it's

going to say select a privacy mode for

FTL so you got show everything hide

domains hide domains and clients and

Anonymous mode so again just for the

sake of this tutorial we're going to go

with show everything so at this moment

in time it's going to go through an

extra few set of steps and install the

pie hole stuff and it's basically going

through the hardest job for you and what

comes next will be a little easier to

manage I promise you you do not have to

use this scary looking terminal for too

long okay so over here it's going to ask

you configure your devices to use the

pie hole as their DNS server so again

this is going to be your IP for your

Raspberry Pi that we dynamically set 192

168

5068 and of course you want to make sure

that the DNS server for devices that

you're using are connected to the pile

so there is again there is a bit of you

know user maintenance required but we'll

get to it so it's going to give you a

password Here undor n xv1 foru so what

you want to do is you want to open open

up a text editor grab a piece of paper

write this down somewhere okay this is

going to be your actual password and

obviously you can change this but for

now that's what's generated so write

that down and keep it somewhere so This

Moment In Time 192 168

5068 SL admin and as you enter it you'll

see this cool web page interface right

here so that password we literally just

copied and saved put that in there and

log in and this is what your actual

interface looks like so again a lot

simpler than the uh terminal that we

were looking at so again first things

first let's change some passwords around

on the web interface now before you get

rid of that terminal and close it out if

you want to change the password go to

pseudo py hole type it in the Terminal D

a-p all right so again hit enter it's

going to tell you enter a new password

so enter whatever password you want

confirm it just add the extra safety and

once that password is set you can

finally close that terminal so now if

you go to the ad panel over here you can

just basically log out and just confirm

it for yourself so entering the password

you're now connected into your P hole so

right now py hole isn't actually it's

not running we're not using it at the

moment so first things first you want to

actually look at a few settings over

here so here's your logs your query logs

long-term data so if you want to look at

things like graphics for instance you

can you've got your groups you've got

devices you've got domains and of course

you've got ad lists so right now there

there's one but if you want to add more

lists like block list ad lists you

absolutely can if you want to add

specific URLs you specifically can go

for that okay so first things first you

want to add some extra ad lists to make

sure that this is more efficient than

what you have as a default so right here

is a website and this is one of many

firebog Donnet which is the big

blocklist collection so of course they

say the internet is full of unsavory

content advertisers wanting to sell you

stuff you don't need trackers extracting

and selling your data as if it was oil

so what this is is an easy list where

you can just add links to effectively

you know protect your system and add

more efficient block list so for

instance suspicious list you've got

advertising lists you've got tracking

malicious so on and so forth so in order

to add one of these we're going to go

over here and click any of these links

so these are just text files so what

we're going to do is we're going to grab

one of these we're going to hit copy and

inside the address list we're going to

hit paste and we're going to add that in

so of course it successfully adds an ad

list over here and all you basically can

see is when you open some of these lists

up you can see that it's blocking a

whole chunk of actual advertisements

right over here so once that's done you

want to go to your ad list and where it

says update your gravity list click this

little link hit update and it's going to

just basically download those lists and

integrate them into your system so now

when you go to dashboard you'll start to

notice the number on the domains blocked

is just piling on now if for any reason

you want to disable tracking briefly

there are options to the left hand side

to disable by 10 seconds 30 seconds 5

minutes or indefinitely so just remember

this is where it's at now let's actually

connect a device to the pie hole so now

that pie hole is up and running let's

actually connect our devices and get

things going now if you're using

something like Windows 11 go to your

network and internet settings go to

change adapter properties and start

editing your IP settings now inside your

IP settings you're going to find a

preferred DNS and over here you're going

to manually configure those DNS settings

so our preferred DNS is the piie hole IP

192168 5068 and then the alternate is

going to be anything of your choosing I

picked quad 9 which is 9.9.9 point9 but

you can go with whatever you want now

where you put your what what you put for

your DNS is the IP address of your

actual pie hole so 1 1921 16850 68 in

our example now if you're like well mudo

[ __ ] me do I have to do this for every

goddamn device no that would be a

serious hemorrhoid in your ass okay that

wouldn't be fun now would it so what you

can do is you can go into the DHCP

settings of your router and each of

these are individual so you might want

to just Google specifically how to do it

so again going back to the router if you

remember where we entered the static IP

usually in the DHCP server settings here

now what's more important is again where

it asks you DNS and win server settings

so by putting the actual DNS servers

here this is is what's going to be

passed on to the actual devices as they

connect so you don't need to be

modifying DNS servers for every device

that you have so over here in your DNS

server you want to put 192 168 5068 or

whatever the IP of your pie hole is and

in the DNS server 2 you want to put

whatever you want an alternate back in

to be so I did quad n which is 9.9.9

point9 I believe Google is 1.11.1 so if

you want to go with Googles you can I

picked quad n there's no reason specific

I just did it out of preference so again

look up whatever DNS you're comfortable

with and go there or alternatively if

you want to set up your own DNS and

maybe I'll make a video for that later

because I think it's important then um

feel free to put anything like that in

but generally I think quad 9 is probably

the best option to go for okay and once

you're done with this all you do is

apply and now it should basically Auto

default this to any device you connect

so now you should start to see this

reflected under your pie hole now if you

look at the clients here the 31 active

clients you can start to see that it's

actually picking every device and as

long as you see this check under uses py

hole that means whatever device it

detects is actually feeding itself

through the py hole system and The

Trackers are being killed as these

devices hit so again the big benefit of

this is if you want to stop tracking and

somebody's on your network or you know

somebody just connects in this whole

thing gives blanket coverage which

ultimately is again better than nothing

so so this is exactly what you want and

this is a healthy looking situation if

you don't see green across the board

that means at some point a device is

connecting that doesn't benefit from

this entire setup that you have now at

this moment in time you're effectively

done setting up your Pi whole server so

it's not really that complicated it's

actually a really fun process but then

again my definition of fun is a little

bit different than yours I would assume

but to be honest you might be wondering

mud why not just use a browser or an ad

blocking extension again the idea of

doing this is that you have more control

over your ad blocking solution and your

entire network is safer from not just ad

blocks but also trackers and various

other Solutions look instead of relying

on a million different browsers and like

a whole bunch of different extensions

you set this up once and again it's not

a setup and forget it for the most part

there is some maintenance like you might

want to add an extra list here or there

but once you get this basically upfront

and going any device that connects in

automatically gets fed through this

system and once that occurs that means

that your device is instantly blocking

now I want to stress that this solution

isn't entirely something that can stand

just on its own it's meant to be used as

a conjunction right so again the goal

here is not necessarily to you know Stop

Those ads look if you're trying to stop

like YouTube advertisements or video

advertisements or Spotify ads well a lot

of those advertisements now run off of

the same servers and domains that videos

and music play off of so by actually

using this in an aggressive fashion you

can actually ruin your video watching

experience on the internet so if you

want to stop ads you know you might want

to go for YouTube premium as a good

option or you might want to go for like

Spotify Premium option it really is up

to you depending on how much you invest

into those Services remember these

services are free because of

advertisements out there this entire

setup is entirely more gated towards the

idea of stopping cross-site tracking or

tracking in general which I find to be

very weird and just degenerate in

general and a lot of private information

gets leaked out and a lot of profiles

get built without the user really

knowing so having something like a pie

hole whether it be running on a

Raspberry Pi whether it be running on a

computer whether it be running on a Nas

it's something you definitely want to

have in your Arsenal to protect yourself

on the internet against Shady tracking

and especially against Shady

malvertising which this is more what

this device is gear to attack and you

want you you want to use it in

conjunction with maybe a real ad

blocking solution out there remember at

the end of the day the FBI and a lot of

agencies would prefer you use these kind

of tools to protect yourself against

fraud so with that said yeah this is a

pretty awesome option and honestly I

recommend you go through it 100% so yeah

the world of Internet advertisements are

dangerous and sometimes you need a

condom to protect you when you're

connecting to the internet so this is

effectively how to set up a digital

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