NextDNS

“Combine with NextDNS (for DNS and system wide tracker blocking) alongside Tailscale, and you’ve got a nice setup.”

“NextDNS literally not innovating at all and having no customer suppport”

“they offer absolutely zero support for their customers.”

“I use NextDNS on my iPhone and I don’t think I’ve ever seen these ads in years of usage.”

“For simplicity I highly recommend https://nextdns.io . Supports most devices, and probably most, if not all, well known blacklists.”

“It's worth the price because you can set up all kinds of different blocking profiles and have different ones on different devices”

“NextDNS free tier is what I give them now, takes two minutes, and I never hear about it again.”

“It's great to have lots of control around DNS while also running a locked-down router”

“the service kept degrading with more timeouts regardless if you were on free/paid”

“throw a couple bucks at something like nextdns and not have to use the VPN bit for mobile DNS ad block”

“I have been having problems for years, especially with NextDNS.”

“I struggle with skepticism for anyone who blocks archive.today, which cloudflare does, along with nextdns and others.”

“Lots of configurability, including which filterlists to enable, configurable logging etc.”

“I use NextDNS instead of Pi-hole, and don't have this issue on iOS 27 beta.”

“some things would get messed up so I'd have to sometimes disable it”

“NextDNS doesn't route to .is or .ph or .fo or .today anymore.”

“Been very happy with it. Supports DOH, block lists, among a plethora of other features.”

“No need for Adblocking extensions if we can't even make the requests to those ad servers.”

“You can block ads on a system level with NextDNS. Much easier to use for non-tech users then any browser plugin.”

“Been a happy user for a few years now and introduced many non-tech friends/family into the world of 99% advert-free internet.”

“I use NextDNS, one of the features it provides is letting you register a source IP so requests from your network "just work".”

“NextDNS for your other devices blocks the vast majority of ads everywhere”

“So far I have experimented with NetShield from ProtonVPN and https://nextdns.io/ with varying results.”

“NextDNS.io gives you fine grained controls - you can set up a custom profile to apply to her device.”

“I admittedly like NextDNS interface better, but honestly, I rarely need to login anyways.”

“after a period of unreliability from from NextDNS”

“Until I tried out Google DNS, and then Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 before settling on NextDNS.”

“my only issue with it is that when sites break, it is hard to fix”

“block ads at a very deep level that works ok mobile and even inside apps”

“Doesn't require running anything locally and supports various block rules and lists”

“The power consumption of self hosted hardware alone costs more than the equivalent, better, service in the cloud.”

“it can pass through the requesting client information so you're not losing any of the logging you'd have running Pi-hole”

“Custom blocking options such as allowlists, denylists, blocking certain TLDs, custom rewrites”

“using NextDNS as a private DNS server works and doesn't cause any problems like this”

“They have wonderful integrations, instructions, documentation and features.”

“support. It's pathetic. Maybe because it's non existent.”

“I have used them both paid and free and they are not good.”

“Startpage, DDG, Brave, Ublock, NextDNS, Proton, Mulvad, and all those similar companies and OSS exist literally because people were infuriated at the Big Tech bait-and-switch tactics”

“very easy to configure and with so many options and ready-to-use blocklists”

“haven't been able to load any of these archive domains in at least a few days now”