I run a pi-hole equivalent on a Raspberry Pi at home (dnsmasq with pi-hole's block lists). One word of warning, its list tends toward over-zealous, blocking sites / links you might want (e.g. Google Shopping links). You can add manual domain exceptions but it's tedious and takes a long time to restart dnsmasq due to the enormous list size and the RPI's relatively slow performance.

Blocker extensions are nice becuase you can selectively disable them or open an incognito tab in cases when you need to bypass the list. Easier than temporarily changing your DNS server to 1.1.1.1, etc.

Still, nice to have automatic adblocking for all devices in the house.

I had the same problem with overzealous blocking. I had to disable temporarily about once per day, and my wife found it bothersome also (especially because she didn't know how to manually disable it). We turned it off last month and I've just been using Brave instead. Works great on my MBP (fan doesn't run nearly as much as with FF & Chrome), though of course our mobile devices aren't protected anymore.

If anyone has a good solution for the overprotectiveness of the Pi-Hole, I'd love to hear it!

Then, only on your own phone/laptop/etc, manually configure your pi-hole as the DNS server for the corresponding home Wifi network. So only the devices you manually configure will use the pi-hole.

Also, you can create a shortcut on your phones homescreen to disable pi-hole for x minutes by just a single click (without having to log in.) see: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/is-there-an-api-command-to-d...

Another idea might be to remove all blocklists in pi-hole, and only add this list: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts