Comment by 1970-01-01
2 months ago
This is a very important detail. Adblock in 2026 is necessary and DNS will transparently do a lot of that work for you. It isn't just about lightning fast lookups and five-nines uptime anymore.
2 months ago
This is a very important detail. Adblock in 2026 is necessary and DNS will transparently do a lot of that work for you. It isn't just about lightning fast lookups and five-nines uptime anymore.
For blocking, I would much rather run my own service.
I've been loving the Pihole setup I just set up. It uses Quad9 as the upstream provider and then I do all the blocking myself. I used to use NextDNS but this is so much better and free!
Technitium is also really good as a performant local blocker and recursive dns server. I have been running mine for years now and it is fast as well.
How do you block ads when you're outside of your home network? Do you expose your pihole outside?
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