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

If you're on android, you should try blockada, I don't have ads whatsoever

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.