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This seems like more of an issue of the adlists you use in pihole. Pihole's blocking is only as good as the adlists you use on it. I've been running a pihole on my home network for years, and I find that as long as I take a few minutes to update the adlists (add new ones, remove dead ones) once or twice a year, it nukes nearly everything. And it's amazing for blocking things on IoT devices where ublock origin will never be a thing.
Also, they're not mutually exclusive -- one can certainly use both. I use pihole on my home network, and run ffox + UBO on my computers and phone.
There are ads baked in to some websites. Facebook ads make it past pihole.
I personally use both at home I'm just saying pihole doesn't get everything that unlock does so I always run both