• @Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com
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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.

    • @Icarus@lemmy.ml
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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.