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Not much of what you said is actually true. Having it on your local network allows any wireless device to have a huge amounts of ads and trackers blocked automatically. Some sites were unusable on phones before and now they load fast and are readable.

Then there are things like 'smart' tvs sending data back, apps sending all sorts of data out etc. It is quite a game changer.

Also you can do both, but dns blocking for the whole network is always on for everything once you set it up.




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