FWIW I've been running pihole for almost a year, aside from the issue with Burrow and some social media redirect links used to track(that I want to block) I've not had any other false positives.
On almost any machine you could have save for ios.
I've got nothing against browser blockers, I just prefer something that works in a unified way as a network policy.
For example, I don't think changing networks is a pain in the neck. It's just 3 clicks on my android phone or 2 on Windows 10. This is compared to 3 clicks to turn off a browser based ad blocker.
It takes 3 clicks to disable adblocking for a particular site once ever. Click icon at top of window, click disable, click reload. This takes aprox 2 seconds once ever for each site. If you regularly use 7 sites that are annoying in this fashion you have invested 14 seconds.
By contrast lets discuss switching networks one of which uses dns to filter out ads. If you use one of these 7 sites 3 times per week you will incur a 6 second cost not just to click but to actually authenticate and start receiving data from the new net. That is 468 times in 3 years. This means that while I spent 14 seconds you spent 47 minutes.
This is on top of the 60 minutes you spent figuring out the complex solution that only works on your local network buying hardware, configuring hardware.
On net you will ultimately invest over 400x the time for a worse solution.
Using a solution that relies on a custom vpn is stupid in that it prevents you from using an actual vpn to increase your privacy.
Using custom dns even if there is an easy escape hatch to disable/enable it relatively quickly is STILL a global solution which implicitly requires turning it on and off manually and incurring a small time cost per operation.
In conclusion addressing ads via dns/routers wherein you intend to view some content that requires selectively disabling said feature is a complex and grossly ineffective solution. To avoid ads in apps don't install apps with ads. Browser addons remain the obvious choice. If your mobile platform doesn't allow someone to release such software for your platform use a different mobile platform. Namely ditch IOS for this and other reasons.
Solve fewer non problems.
Per browser/adblocker.
> If your mobile platform doesn't allow someone to release such software for your platform use a different mobile platform.
This isn't a feasible solution. Why not use DNS-based adblocking instead? It works for my Android TV...
I've had one false positive across a year of using pi-hole, so this is a non-issue.
If you want to use an adblocker by all means go ahead, just don't go dumping all over everyone else because your usage doesn't line up with other people's.