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?
Ublock Origin is not an option? It automatically updates blocklists, and can block ads served from the same domain as content, where hosts based blockers can’t help.
Afaik dns based blockers like pihole are useful for locked down systems (iphones, smart tvs, consoles, not rooted android phones) where you don’t have access to other ways of blocking ads.