Pi-hole Setup Guide: Block Ads on Your Laptop, Phone and PC

A complete, beginner-friendly guide to running Pi-hole with Docker, connecting your devices to it, testing that it works, fixing common problems, and moving it to a Raspberry Pi later. Pi-hole is a network-wide ad and tracker blocker. It acts as your DNS server and refuses to resolve the domains that serve ads, so blocking works on every device that uses it, with nothing to install on those devices. Table of Contents How it works What you need Quick start Part 1: Install Pi-hole with Docker Part 2: Open the dashboard and verify Part 3: Find the Pi-hole IP address Part 4: Connect your devices Part 5: Test that it works Troubleshooting Daily use and maintenance Moving to a Raspberry Pi Blocking ads outside your home Security notes Limitations FAQ Uninstall / undo everything Useful links How it works Every time a device opens a website, it first asks a DNS server to turn the name (like example.com) into an IP address. Without Pi-hole: Device ->