[mike31fr]

Have you never heard of NextDNS?

[Groxx]

DNS blocking has some nice qualities (simple! efficient! app agnostic!) but it is absolutely not a replacement for something that can inspect and modify the page itself. That has TONS of additional usecases beyond "replace ad image with blank space".

[WirelessGigabit]

Unfortunately with websites hosting their ads on their own pages (like for example IMDB) DNS filtering is becoming less effective.

[Night_Thastus]

I use PiHole, but DNS options don't catch everything. uBlock catches a LOT that it doesn't, and allows for lots of custom stuff I can't do otherwise.