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Re:Mmm, Pi-hole by DavideNL on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @02:34PM (#18078925)
You mean a public Dns server with ad blocking?

https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html

Note that obviously since you are sharing all your dns requests with them, it's terrible for privacy... :'(

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Re:Mmm, Pi-hole by ethagnawl on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @02:59PM (#18079161)
> Not that obviously since you are sharing all your dns requests with them, it's terrible for privacy... :'(

Right. I'm not defending this service in any way, but couldn't you say the same about Quad9 or Cloudflare?

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Re:Mmm, Pi-hole by DavideNL on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @03:55PM (#18079648)
True.

You could set up pi-hole as a recursive dns server: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/unbound/ That way you don't have to use a public dns server like Cloudflare. However, since (as far as i know) dns requests are not encrypted, this is not perfect either (security wise).

At least when using Cloudflare you can use DNS-Over-HTTPS: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns-over-https/

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