unifios-utilities VS unifi-protect-backup

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

Protect does not support it but I use this https://github.com/ep1cman/unifi-protect-backup See my other comments below about protect/your set up.

Not exactly what you're asking for, but I use this project to upload detection events to cloud storage as they occur: https://github.com/ep1cman/unifi-protect-backup/

I use https://github.com/ep1cman/unifi-protect-backup/pkgs/container/unifi-protect-backup to download and push motion events to my OneDrive. Makes it super easy to share clips.

I use this docker container https://github.com/ep1cman/unifi-protect-backup, which backups the alert footage to my nas and then that gets backed up to Google drive.

I mostly just followed the instructions on the GitHub: https://github.com/ep1cman/unifi-protect-backup/pkgs/container/unifi-protect-backup

Use a third party solution (not an endorsement, i've never personally used this solution)