What's funny is that I was once extremely optimistic about the potential for such a device, to the extent of having sold and delivered a few million in product.
Hard experience taught us that churn is just crazy high, no matter how compatible it easy to use you make it. Getting tens of thousands of stars is not the hard part because it's such an easy concept to like. But I would be surprised there are more than let's say ten thousand piholes in active use.
Sadly for the AdGuard team, there isn't much of an audience for this. It's one of those things everyone says they want but few people will actually install one, much less maintain one over time. Add to that the wife-forced uninstalls and the total long-term audience for this is (no kidding) in the thousands.
Hard experience taught us that churn is just crazy high, no matter how compatible it easy to use you make it. Getting tens of thousands of stars is not the hard part because it's such an easy concept to like. But I would be surprised there are more than let's say ten thousand piholes in active use.