Yeah no ublock origin really won’t block all that many

Meh, it’s fairly easy to check this you know. If I turn off uBlock, my pihole logs do turn red. If it’s left on, pihole logs stay mostly green, with nothing suspicious or out of the ordinary getting through.

the chattiest DNS comes from apps and smart devices, windows and mac laptops etc.

I don’t have many of those. My work laptop is windows but it connects through a VPN only, and I have my smartphone that I barely use at home.