• Icarus@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    or just NextDNS which doesn’t even require anything to be installed

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      1 year ago

      For those who don’t know: DNS blockers can be sketchy unless you’re hosting it yourself. Something like a pihole that you set up would be fine, but external DNS services are almost guaranteed to be data-mining you even worse than the ads and trackers they’re blocking.

      It’s a little like free VPNs. The reputable ones cost money, because if you’re not the customer then you’re the product.

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        1 year ago

        that is fair, but your ISP is logging the DNS requests anyway, and NextDNS allows you to turn off logging.

        Edit: I also don’t see how it’s worse than ads and trackers, they can only see the domain names of the sites you visit.