Why build something fresh and not join forces with pihole? Reinventing the wheel for a niche function doesn't get traction much. I don't know the reason why the devs of this project think they need to start afresh, there are already tools like Firefox+unlock origin+ pihole which should solve most if not all of the problems. Why not incorporate the defining feature into pihole so that people don't have to add more com…
What harm does it do? Sure, some combination of 3 or more other things might give you most of the same functionally but why shouldn't people have the option to chose whichever works best for them? Even if the capabilities were 100% identical it's still worth it because it gives you an option if the thing you're using goes evil or stops updating or turns out to contain a vulnerability that takes months to fix etc.
Even better, it could lead to innovation. Maybe Privaxy does something better than pihole does, or has some nice feature they don't and pihole sees it, loves the idea, and makes that improvement or adds that feature too and suddenly everybody is better off. Maybe just having competition helps improve things.
I'm really struggling to understand how anyone loses here, or why it's preferable to have our options limited.