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This is a privacy Lemmy group, why are people using a third party DNS server? There is Adgaurd Home, I do not use it I tried it but did not like it more than the alternative but I hear people like it. There is also Pi-Hole, I do use this and I have finally tuned it. I actually have pihole’s one for primary DNS and one for secondary DNS.
Because we can't implement every change at once. Just degoogling is tough as hell. I still have an account I use on a really old laptop for dealing with work and the gov just to appear conformist.
Then we have to change email, figure out vpn, find alternatives for everything under the sun, figure out what Linux we can live with and how to maintain it. What phone to buy, how to keep google away from it and Facebook from hiding under every damn thing too.
Going as fast as I can and still be sane. I'm tired boss.
NextDNS works when you are not at home.
I was wondering if I could partition my phone and run it, but I don't want to risk screwing it up.
I use Tailscale on my devices and my servers with pi hole so that I can set them as my dns no matter where I am. Works pretty well and lets me access my other self-hosted services as well.
I think I recall Tailscale being a Microslop product with big tech single sign-on options. Assuming I can get past the MS thing, can we use a regular id/password instead of logging in with big tech accounts?
The last time I checked, it was not possible for some stupid reasons. I am trying to reduce reliance on them as well as I think its gonna get enshitified soon.
So does my pihole. You should never trust your ISPs firewall/modem/router, never ever. You should have a hardware firewall/router and than you can set up a VPN into your LAN.
Some ISPs require you to use their router, and their router may not be configurable to support custom DNS or VPN access. For users in that situation third-party DNS can make sense.
Looks like in this case our third party DNS could be compromised. Who knows if they sold our info or not? Third party DNS is the solution with no notice that service no longer works the same.
I'm about to set up Pi Hole with Unbound. F all this.