I really don't believe it. At some point it was even a suggested workaround to intercept requests to port 53 because the Shield or its apps were not honoring your network's DNS configuration. Which would be similar to the pihole not being in the picture at all.
If it's really working for you, I suggest telling the community how you've done it because this question pops up every other day and the answer is always the same.
That's BS. It's impossible for something like pihole to block ads like the ones we get on YouTube/Android tv because they are served from the same domain as the regular content and a pihole doesn't know the difference.
The only way to block them is to run unofficial apps that replace YouTube and the likes.
Saying nobody wants AI is like saying nobody wants the internet a few decades ago. Before you know it, it'll be the interface to everything you do with a computer.
Out of interest though, what specifically is it that you don't like?
Jfc, to what end? All this retroactive cancelling of dead people is just diddling yourself for feel-good reasons. Get over it and be different instead of waving some flag that says you are different.
I really find this a bit alarmist and exaggerated. Consider the motive and the alternative. You really think companies like that have any other options than to deal with those things?
What is silly is the idea that that is in any way relevant to what we were discussing here. And I use the word discussing lightly. There's a big difference between the insinuation that a foreigner is at risk for tunneling into the Russia and the Russian government eavesdropping on its population.
This.