• RetiredFromHumanity@lemmy.ml
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    16 hours ago

    Oh, you must also consider that NextDNS is American, and legally their government can force the company into cooperation, such as providing a backdoor to monitor all traffic, while placing them under a gag order. If you only want to avoid ads and tracking, that’s fine. However, if you’re concerned about government surveillance, that’s something to think about before using American services. I wonder if such U.S. policies influenced the creators to abandon NextDNS and start a new one in EU… Lavabit creator chose to end his service and close the company before complying.

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      8 hours ago

      Oh yes that very much is a concern. I’ve divested myself off a few American services, especially those that bent the knee.

      I’ll have a think over what’s best.

      Does dns0 not have an account? Paid tier?

      One thing I do like about NextDNS is I installed it via flu on my UniFi router, and it reports client names correctly, so I can see in my account what device has had whatever blocked. Good for identifying rogue devices or software.

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      15 hours ago

      Thank you very, very, very much for taking the time to share this knowledge! I’m looking into it now and will implement system wide changes immediately.