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Haven’t used NextDNS but have used PiHole and currently running AdGuard Home. But if you are paying $20/year just for DNS encryption/blocking, you may consider
by i2shar 3y ago
Haven’t used NextDNS but have used PiHole and currently running AdGuard Home. But if you are paying $20/year just for DNS encryption/blocking, you may consider upgrading to Mullvad which gives you DNS Ad blocking but also IP anonymity, tunneling etc.
- ThePowerOfFuet 3y agoThe two are not the same; with NextDNS I can choose to enable logging and see all requests from each device, as well as allowlist/denylist any domain/subdomain I want.
- Rastonbury 3y agoNot familiar with pihole but are there not ways to do those things on it?
- oceanplexian 3y agoExcept all of these third party VPN and DNS type services are literally NSA honeypots and privacy nightmares. I get that you have to do DNS lookups somewhere, but I'm not going to make it ridiculously trivial for a bad actor to scoop up all that data conveniently in a central location.
- hackeman300 3y agoMullvad is an NSA honeypot? Got any sources on that?
- nprateem 3y agoI agree there's a very high chance they and the majority of other VPNs are - or if not the US some other intel org. The US government has form (what was that early crypto machine they sold to allies and it was backdoored?), and they'd be foolish to miss such a strategically obvious play.
- lencastre 3y agoYes, let me just get my tin foil roll, stand up in front of the mirror,…
- oceanplexian 3y agoNSA tapped the phones of the German Prime Minister. They are the same spooks that intercept router gear in transit, flashed it with secret firmware, then put it back in the mail. Like, of course the United Stated Intelligence apparatus, agencies with an unlimited budget, a national security mission, and is completely exempt from all laws has 100% capability to spy on some tiny company in Sweden.
- screamingninja 3y ago>> consider upgrading to Mullvad > all of these third party VPN and DNS type services are literally NSA honeypots https://mullvad.net/en/help/privacy-policy https://mullvad.net/en/help/privacy-policy It is up to you to decide what you believe, but Mullvad is a swiss company that does not ask for your personal information for signup and even allows payment in cash. You hurt your own credibility each time you make an unqualified claim without looking into it.
- schleck8 3y agoThe issue being that it decreases your connection speed and increases your latency while good DNS naturally doesn't.