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Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server” by Naracion on Thursday January 23, 2020 @11:12AM (#22128673)
I'm sorry for my ignorance, but how does NextDNS compare to 1.1.1.1 by Cloudflare?

I've been using 1.1.1.1 for some time. For me it has worked fairly well in the USA where my connection speed is ~200mbps. While I was in India, 1.1.1.1 caused substantial slowdowns, in some cases made a few websites unusable. Typically I had it disabled. I'm unsure why this was happening because the website says it makes web browsing faster--I do not have the technical chops to understand this, so would anybody be kind enough to explain in a layman's language? Would NextDNS and 1.1.1.1 differ in terms of speed?

https://1.1.1.1

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Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server” by lozaning on Thursday January 23, 2020 @11:48AM (#22129075)
I dont think the increase in speed is a result of you getting responses to DNS queries any faster, it's simply that if you only need to load the content you want and none of the content you dont (ads and whatnot), then the stuff you do want to see has that much more bandwidth available.
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