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Re:Stuff a Pi-hole in your router because your browser is ab... by CharlesW on Saturday March 08, 2025 @07:29PM (#43304939)
Nope! NextDNS blocked 913,294 of 10,287,370 queries over the last 3 months. I'm sure the percentage would rise if I flipped on other options that they provide ("AI-Driven Threat Detection", "Block Newly Registered Domains", etc.), and I should probably revisit those.
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Re:Stuff a Pi-hole in your router because your browser is ab... by Brajeshwar on Saturday March 08, 2025 @09:34PM (#43305636)
Wow! I'm more intrigued by the fact that you did 10M queries in 3 months. I'm going to assume you're using a single profile for everything. I have separated machines/robots (that includes the TV), kids, and other profiles for business devices.
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Re:Stuff a Pi-hole in your router because your browser is ab... by CharlesW on Sunday March 09, 2025 @01:11PM (#43311193)
That's a steller idea, thanks for mentioning it! I didn't realize that different profiles assign unique DNS servers, allowing me to partition off devices that don't support DNS-over-TLS/DNS-over-HTTPS/IPv6. I don't think it'd affect total queries, but tighter rules for machines/robots, etc. should increase the percentage of blocked requests.
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