Ask HN: What's the best setup for ad blocking and tracker blocking?

Re:Ask HN: What's the best setup for ad blocking and tracker... by jammygit on Saturday August 24, 2019 @01:21AM (#20785396)

Looking at their site, it seems complicated to set up.

What is the difference between IPv4, unbound, stubby, knot, and cloudfared - do you set one, or all of them? Do I want DNS over HTTPS, DNS over TLS, or both? Is it compatible with a VPN?

For the trouble, it looks like it wouldn't be any harder to just set up your own Pi-Hole. Am I wrong?

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best setup for ad blocking and tracker... by ignoramous on Saturday August 24, 2019 @04:05AM (#20785931)

I understand where you come from, but I'd say they've made a good job of simplfying as much as they could at this early stage.

Use DNS over HTTPS for:

1. Firefox.

2. Intra app on Android phones below version 9.

3. Clouflared on Linux.

4. Their official iOS app.

Use DNS over TLS for:

1. Android 9 and above.

2. Knot or Stubby or unbound clients on Linux.

IPv6 and IPv4 are for DHCP provided DNS:

1. With IPv4, you'd need to link your client-ip (public IP of your router) with your nextdns setup.

2. IPv6 doesn't require any such linked-ip acrobatics.

Re: VPN:

If you use DNS over HTTPS on Android or iOS, you won't be able to use a VPN, and that's because the DNS traffic is itself routed through a VPN and one can't chain VPNs on Android just yet. Other than that, VPN should work with rest of the setup mechanisms.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best setup for ad blocking and tracker... by jammygit on Saturday August 24, 2019 @02:00PM (#20788620)

Thanks!

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