A few months ago I set up a Pi-hole at home. I tried to create a decent blacklist by first adding some regexes I found online and then doing some manual optimization by finding ads and blocking the ad requester through the queries page. But in the end it did not work so well. I still get a lot of YouTube ads, for example. So I still rely on uBlock for my ad-blocking.
I just read that Chrome is planning to start weakening ad blocker plugins. I use Firefox, but it is still worrying that the space could potentially keep moving in this direction over time. So I am now more invested in learning how to have more control over my ad-blocking.
Has any of you managed to optimize your Pi-hole to the point that it is possible to browse the internet without an ad-blocker? If so, how did you do it? Are there other good ad-blocking alternatives?
It’s hard to get rid of video ads with pi-hole afaik, because pi-hole works on the DNS level and video ads are a few layers higher. For normal ads I don’t seem to need an adblocker anymore, pretty much the stock block lists and a few I found that were recommended, but video ads still need the adblocker.
Ah, that’s unfortunate, because video ads during videos are the ones I find the most bothersome.