Pihole is 100% awesome but I just want mention that AdGuard is great on iOS devices to deal with ads while away from home. There is also AdGuard Home which is compareable to Pihole and is also free software (GPL 3).
I'm going to disagree with you a bit here. I've seen first hand when intelligent people use all their additional cognitive ability to create rationalizations and pseudo-logical interpretations of questionable facts to avoid challenging their own assumptions. It takes a good dose of humility/integrity to admit that you were wrong and be willing to change course. That's not a feature of intelligence, at least not in the realm where it is typically measured.
...with ads in maps and paying their big tech bribe money...
No kidding. I've been an Apple customer since '05 and they've lost me. It's not this one thing but rather, the overall, gradual decline in quality along the way. I help a lot of people with their tech devices and here are a few things that have gone disasterously bad for me just this year: getting a large photo library OUT of iCloud and onto a single Mac; restoring a borked iOS device from an on-line backup; TimeMachine drive that won't use, spotlight won't stop indexing and was impossible to run first aid with out a wipe/reformat; failed iOS upgrades; iPhone that won't notify the user about incoming messages, sometimes calls, etc.; iOS minor updates that will only download the FULL installer (~8GB worth, every. single. time.). There have been many others. I've heard other comment on this UI update making it harder to read in various situations.
Apple stuff used to be pretty bomb-proof and really hit the mark because it really did "just work". I'm seriously thinking about just bailing out entirely from their ecosystem to Linux, since I know I won't have the OS actively getting in my way when I need to fix it (I'm a 30 year Unix/Linux sysadmin). I was never a true believer but used their stuff because it allowed me to avoid more system work off the clock. I can't help but wonder how Mr. Jobs would have seen the current state of things today.
I counted the dots along the x axis, multiplied by the y axis count and took that as an estimate for the tile. Then did the same with the number of tiles across the ceiling. Then multiplied that by the number of classrooms... Same with the floor tiles. There was no end to it.
How fucking dumb are some of these Americans to believe that shit.
I've lived here most of my life and knew it was bad but had no idea just how bad it was until Trump 1.0. Then covid-19 happened and it was a real eye opener for many of us. Now it's not just willful ignorance but a deep-seated dedication to remaining ignorant at all costs.
This is the thing that will 100% get me to leave my iPhone behind.