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Pihole is open source software, so it is free and can run on basically any hardware. You could use an old laptop, a raspberry pi or other cheap SoC, and I think it might even be possible to run on something like an old Android phone.
Aye but I don't have any old hardware lying around to use, so I'd need a Raspberry Pi for it. Again, money just feels like it's getting tighter everyday that such a rather trivial purchase makes me think twice now.
If your router is OpenWRT it might be possible to run right on the router itself, but I'm not 100% sure
The router actually has DNS options for working to block ads built in it, I might give that try after work today.