That's true if you're prepared to update the file yourself all the time. In my experience there are a lot of URLs to maintain and I am ok with offloading that t

That's true if you're prepared to update the file yourself all the time. In my experience there are a lot of URLs to maintain and I am ok with offloading that trust to a 3rd party like Easylist who will maintain the list for me. Admittedly, I do occasionally have to turn the adblocker off to get a site to work, but this is maybe once a month. This is the reason I haven't installed Pi-hole. I understand that a broken site may be because of the adblocker and can turn it off in my browser, but a less tech savvy user may not know this. And if they are on a Pi-hole network they won't know or be able to turn it off (I understand there is a whitelist but I believe this is only configured by an admin - could be wrong here).