unifios-utilities VS split-vpn

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

With Router side VPN it shows up in the DPI.

yes i as well think this is sad that such things are not passible "easy" through the frontend. you can look at https://github.com/peacey/split-vpn to see if you can get such working but its then not an out of the box solution again.

Honestly just use this, it works wonderfully with wireguard vpn providers and you can assign a specific subnet, VLAN, or interface to the VPN tunnel.

This is what I use. I have a wifi and connected to a separate vlan that routes through my openvpn connection provided by expressvpn. Any device connected to that wifi goes through the VPN connection. https://github.com/peacey/split-vpn

I use wireguard on the UDM Pro unofficially to route as a client, and here's some extensive performance testing I did. Typically, the UDMP/SE is perfectly able to saturate a 1 Gbps connection up and down through wireguard.