Not on a network-wide basis, and not on non-browsers. I don’t think anyone here is saying don’t use a browser-based blocker too. I use both a browser plugin on the client and dnsmasq on my network.
>you could do the same with ublock
that was in response to
>This should just be dnsmasq, for which source code is readily available and inspectable. You can (and should) compile it yourself if you don’t trust someone else’s binary.