I already know that's going to be an ongoing project getting sites correctly whitelisted, plus its all moot when I take my laptop outside my home. Ublock origin just works.

the only sites I've had to whitelist are the shopping links in Google.

I maintain my pihole outside the house with an always on wireguard tunnel. Granted, this is more work than installing an extension but my phone uses it too.

The biggest thing I miss is ad blocking on youtube.