Well, it took a bit of fiddle, but now done, 10 minutes ago. So a full and comprehensive test.
The obstacles were all to do with my Pi having a very ancient software build on it, had to update that. but it only had a 4GB SD card in it, not big enough.
Once that was replaced and the latest Rasbian installed, putting pi-hole in was easy. Bit of fiddle at the main router and all kicked into life.
I've been able to turn off my ad blockers on the PC and all is well. no ads or pop ups there. Also, and this was the point, all devices on my network, including this Fire tablet, now block ads. (I shall whitelist this site though. One click is all.)
Just dived onto the notoriously slow Renault and Skoda sites from this Fire, and now they are snappy. Before they were virtually unusable.
Cambridge local news site is the same. Click, got the headlines, click, got the article. Two seconds flat.
Works on the phone too so all good.
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