What in tarnation

France too

That’s what you understood after reading the page you linked?

“A messing with our junta, it’s brand new!”

You can use a private Adblocking DNS on all OS at this point.

If you bother that much, why not just use the Pi as an OpenWRT router with DNS over HTTPS, and get a great router with awesome QoS and actual software updates in the process?

It’s a vast superset of whatever PiHole does.