Having become irritated by the daily deluge of web advertisements that make most sites unusable on my phone, this weekend I took the time to install Pi-hole. I'd prefer that the little Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W used an ethernet connection, but am too cheap frugal to buy yet another dongle. Interestingly, the combinded cost of the Raspberry Pi and a micro SD card is about that of a used thin client (eg an HP T630) which can be configured as a general purpose server running several lightweight services.
These two video tutorials were helpful (even if the process is quite straightforward): Block Ads on ALL DEVICES (Smart TVs) — Simplest Pi-hole Tutorial and Raspberry Pi Set Static IP.
Update: The default blocklist is very aggressive. Many community and non-profit sites use the free or low-cost tier of commercial communication services (eg, Constant Contact). The default blocklist blocks these services due to their tracking activities via image URLs. Unfortunatly, this made the community communications less worthwhile. Until I have time to better consider the blocklist I have disabled Pi-hole. For the short period the Pi-hole was enabled, it was a glorious few days of smooth, swift internet browsing. Reminded me of the early days.
