Pi-Hole and similar DNS adblockers just seem like a hassle. I can’t tell my parents to buy a raspi, flash it, install and configure pi-hole, configure their routers or devices to point to the raspi, and do all of that from another city. Also personally, there’s no time for that in my house.
Is there a program or systemd service I can run that pulls blocklists from somewhere (git, http, …) and updates /etc/hosts? Before I go off and write a python script, systemd unit file, and shell script to install it on the linux systems of friends of family, does this exist?
maybe the scheduler cron in combination with git might work for you?