I think the blog post is saying that, especially in the quote that started this thread. The post portrays ad-blocking browser extensions as not worth the risk, discussing both the questionable value of blocking all ads and also the possible risk of the extension being sold to a malware creator. It then presents Pi-hole as a safe alternative to browser-based blockers.

when i said

>you could do the same with ublock

that was in response to

>This should just be dnsmasq, for which source code is readily available and inspectable. You can (and should) compile it yourself if you don’t trust someone else’s binary.