I’ve been using AdBlock for a few years now. There are many clones so let’s be specific: https://www.getadblock.com/ Accept no substitutes.
For the most part, it works great. However, the “cat” in this battle (websites and advertisers) can detect when you use AdBlock and may choose to either give you a nag screen (please help us pay for our site) or deny you access entirely unless you whitelist the site.
Which brings me to Pi-hole. This service runs on any Linux distro, and the most popular method is to use a Raspberry Pi, hence the name. However I chose to use Ubuntu Server as a virtual guest on VMware.
Installation was extremely simple if you follow their website. Once installed, you can change the default password by running the command on your Linux command line:
pihole -a -p
Once Pi-hole is running, change the DNS of your DHCP server to resolve to the Pi-hole device (or virtual guest). That’s it.