[Kadin]

I don't mind PiHole, but it doesn't do nearly as good a job of ad blocking as a "real" browser plugin does.

The amount of crap that still comes through when I turn off uBlock -- but am still using PiHole DNS, which is always active on my home network -- is a lot.

Honestly I don't think DNS-based adblocking is really viable, long-term. It's just too easy for advertisers and dirtbag website operators to get around it. There's just no substitute for controlling the retrieval of content elements and their presentation from the application where the user is doing the interaction.

This is why keeping browsers out of the hands of adtech corporations is pretty important; once they control that presentation layer it's largely game over. They can just tunnel all the traffic through a single connection to a relay server, if they want to, and there won't be shit a user can do about it once they've decided that's the only browser they can use.