[sumanthn]

It's so ridiculous because instead of wasting money buying unnecessary hardware people could just use already existing DNS servers that do the same thing.

I block ads in my home because it's just a nicer web experience for everyone. Plus when I play games on my phone I don't get a barrage of ads every time I die.

https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html

[FredFS456]

Pihole is much more configurable: you can whitelist or blacklist domains with ease. However, Pihole can also be run on existing hardware like a home server, if you don't want a standalone pi.