Just download a Host file[1] and you can have system level ad blocking on your laptop.

As for running an adblock on your router, if your router supports openwrt, openwrt has an adblock addon[2] that is easily configurable.

Unfortunately, you will lose out on the statistics that Pi-hole collects.

[1] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

[2] https://github.com/openwrt/packages/tree/master/net/adblock/...

Can you go into a little bit more detail about the reasoning behind this? I’m running a Pi-hole on raspberry pi as the single DNS server behind my whole home’s router. This means it blocks everything outbound in my house. Only thing it doesn’t block is when I’m on LTE/random WiFi access points, for which I’m considering routing all of my mobile devices via VPN through another instance of Pi-hole running on a digital ocean droplet. Beyond that what do running multiple instances of pi-hole do? Do you have multiple routers at home?

I travel a lot. I want to run something on my laptop so I do not need to VPN yet I have no ads.

That makes perfect sense. I'd like something similar especially if I'm overseas and don't want my requests going all the way to the USA and back and don't want to deal with the overhead of spinning up instances of my pi-hole in different countries. Do you have a link to the project?

It is private at the moment because not ready yet for prime time. You can reach out to me via email and I will add you to the repo. Use the email in my profile page please.