inadyn VS unifios-utilities

I've tried to set up Cloudflare DDNS on my UDM Pro through the GUI but it wouldn't work. Then I started looking at the docs for inadyn and saw that it had built-in support for cloudflare. So I just manually modified inadyn.conf and it works fine.

You could use a dynamic dns service like dyn.com or if you own a domain and have it hosted for example at cloudflare you could use scripts to update via API or tools like inadyn to update. Inadyn supports a wide variety of services to update domains dynamically. https://github.com/troglobit/inadyn

You can use dynamic DNS for this (https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/glossary/dynamic-dns/). There are a bunch of services out there like https://account.dyn.com/ or https://www.noip.com/ or there are solutions you can run inside your own network that will watch your ip and update your dns for you when it detects a change like https://github.com/troglobit/inadyn#build--install

I just purchased the unifi express and I have been researching its capabilities and more specifically ad blocking functionality. I have found that people are complaining about the ad blocking abilities not being very granular and referring to unifios-utilities and running something like pi hole or adguard as an alternative. Can I safely assume that these options will be available to the unifi express?

https://github.com/unifi-utilities/unifios-utilities <- this cannot be more simple to digest. Stop spreading FUD (and learn to code if you still don't understand how Github works and what is linked)

Install on boot script: https://github.com/unifi-utilities/unifios-utilities/tree/main/on-boot-script

(https://github.com/unifi-utilities/unifios-utilities)

Not natively but they run dnsmasq so you can use unifios-utilities with an on-boot-script to modify dnsmasq’s config and add whatever records you need, including wildcard