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Re:Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating sy... by vezycash on Sunday March 29, 2020 @07:34AM (#22718144)
My explanation was wrong...

Google support page explation for private DNS doesn't explain anything. Just recommends leaving it on.

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Re:Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating sy... by tuananh on Sunday March 29, 2020 @07:37AM (#22718157)
> Private DNS allows you to set the DNS server the phone should use instead of your ISP's.

iOS does support that.

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Re:Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating sy... by jeroenhd on Sunday March 29, 2020 @07:37AM (#22718156)
It's more than that, private DNS is not just a different DNS server, it's a DNS over TLS (DoT) server. This means encrypting the lookups to prevent the ISP from tracking the host names you visit.

Many DNS servers don't support DoT and some support DoH (DNS over HTTPS) instead.

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Re:Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating sy... by clairity on Sunday March 29, 2020 @01:04PM (#22720570)
they recommend leaving it on because then all your dns queries go to google and no one else by default--their "private dns" defaults to the very unprivate google dns servers.
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