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Good free and private DNS? (lemmy.world)

submitted 15 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know you can get good results with NextDNS, but lately I haven't been a fan of subscriptions and those free trials. I'd like to find something similar, or even better

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Mullvad DNS. You dont need to use their VPN. The DNS is provided for free. Here is guide to use it under GNU/Linux: https://man.sr.ht/~rek2/Hispagatos-wiki/software/EnableSecureDNS.md

from hispagatos.org

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

https://www.privacy-handbuch.de/handbuch_93d.htm

I prefer Digitale Gesellschaft and UncensoredDNS.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

Quad9

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Privacy Guides is a good resources for this.

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/dns/

NextDNS has a free tier. Are you at risk of going over 300,000 queries per month limit? That's quite a bit for home users.

Even then it still functions as a DNS without blocking.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

300K is nothing but a taste, for normal usage. I've been using NextDNS on my home network for a few years. I average 1.2 million queries/month. And that's with cache boost (forced minimum TTL) enabled.

$20/year is worth every penny. The amount of time you save in blocking all the ads and surveillance marketing services is worth 10x that.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 13 hours ago

Mullvad dns.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

I use controld.com p2 dns over tls which kills known malware, tracking, and ads. I have it set up as a standard DNS provider on my home network so that everybody uses it and it works great.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 15 hours ago

DNS0.eu is the new thing. Maybe also Control D Free DNS, Alternate DNS or if you want to go more hardcore LibreDNS. To be fair your biggest concern shouldn't be only where you get your DNS from BUT also if it supports DoT and DoH - encrypting the DNS is more important for a lot people than actually using something other than Cloudflare or some other big company.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

dns.adguard.com But know that some sites will not operate with it enabled.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Adguard is a very large data mining operation. You'll eventually figure that out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Yeah... After a user here on Lemmy pointed out that the AdGuard app on mobile made a lot of strange requests to ads servives, I gave it a try myself with PCAPdroid and seeing all thoses requests made by only opening the app made me think twice about AdGuard...

Removed all their services from my network and a happy piHole + quad9 user since !