Setting up a Pi-Hole on an Orange Pi Zero 3

Published at : 18 Dec 2025

I've seen a lot of Techtubers saying the Pi-Hole is the miracle pill for advertising on your network. In reality it will only reduce the ads you see. It will not stop ads on a
Smart TV on either the Home Screen or in apps like YouTube without very specific config for your device. It should be used in conjunction with Firefox and uBlock origin.
You can also use the Pi-Hole for filtering out specific websites or adult content on specific devices if required using the Groups function and adding the Fireblog Adult list.

I picked the Orange Pi as it is about 2/3 the price of a Raspberry Pi that supported Gigabit Ethernet.
You could also use a lower spec device, Pi-Hole will run fine on a 1st gen Pi.

Pi-Hole Setup Guide
https://github.com/RGPtv/Orangepi-Pi-hole-Setup

OrangePi Ubuntu Image
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1aLTaOlIMdHhwk3oeZY2YPdB9T8U-EAKA

Equipment used:
Orange Pi Zero 3 - 2GB
14x14x8 Heat sinks - https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_c4VnrRQd
Sandisk 64GB Class 10 Micro SD Card
Raspberry Pi 3A USB C Power Supply
SD Card Reader

Block lists used:
StevenBlack List
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts

Fireblog Advertising
https://adaway.org/hosts.txt

Fireblog Tracking
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easyprivacy.txt

Fireblog Malware
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/RPiList-Malware.txt

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