[snake_plissken]

Pi-Hole is different from using a hosts file in that, Pi-Hole returns 200 OK with empty content for any requests to the black-listed domains?

[gruez]

how does that work with https?

[64kbisalluneed]

Just install nginx that answers to http and https and return empty gif or 204.

[Chaebixi]

Would that fail because your sever can't provide the right cert? You'd probably have to install a custom root certificate on your machines that you https ad blocker could use to forge certs.

[64kbisalluneed]

Yes, custom cert has to be used, otherwise browsing could be very annoying.