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[–] errer 52 points 1 year ago (5 children)

And a Pi Hole for good measure.

[–] AProfessional 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A dns blocker cannot do anything more than ublock. It is nice for other apps though.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

A DNS blocker is great for other devices on your network!

[–] mesamunefire 9 points 1 year ago

It works very well on browser and outside the browser. So if your software/hardware is phoning home, it will pick it up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Or Adguard Home, that I think is superior than Pi-Hole. It runs as a single instance and you can easily upgrade it from the web UI.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

OpenWRT router with DNS over HTTPS for the whole network. Come for the easy adblock, stay for the updated router distribution and the best anti-buffer bloat features in any Router software.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am using NextDNS. Is there any advantage of using Pihole over nextDNS?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not that I can think of other than having more control (such as adding any Blocklist etc)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Don’t forget DoH or DoT if you can