The main difference to my knowledge between an ad blocker and pihole is while a ad blocker downloads the ad but doesn’t show it a pihole blocks it from being downloaded.
In addition you can block anything(not just ads) so if you want to say block reddit you could add *.reddit.com to the block list and it will block it even though it’s not a ad service.
A good adblocker like ublock origin would bit download the ad. It is just as effective as DNS based blocking (pi-hole) with the added feature of also being able to do script blocking and cosmesic blocking.
The main difference to my knowledge between an ad blocker and pihole is while a ad blocker downloads the ad but doesn’t show it a pihole blocks it from being downloaded.
In addition you can block anything(not just ads) so if you want to say block reddit you could add *.reddit.com to the block list and it will block it even though it’s not a ad service.
A good adblocker like ublock origin would bit download the ad. It is just as effective as DNS based blocking (pi-hole) with the added feature of also being able to do script blocking and cosmesic blocking.
Thank you :)