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Are there any guides for running your own setup with similar filtering functionality? Not keen to run all my traffic through some unknown VPN.

• sneak 7y ago
  NextDNS doesn't send the traffic, just DNS (and, entirely encrypted via DoH, unlike normal DNS), but if you're concerned about it, something like pi-hole does much the same thing, and is self-contained/self-hosted.
  • s_dev 7y ago
    If it's not open source how do I confirm that for myself?
    • claudeganon 7y ago
      Agreed. I’d pay for a service that was a. open source and b. configurable to work with my own machines.
  • leesalminen 7y ago
    I deployed a VPN+PiHole on a micro ec2 instance for use from my iOS devices. Works great. First i installed pihole and configured, then used this https://github.com/jawj/IKEv2-setup https://github.com/jawj/IKEv2-setup to setup the vpn. Took about 30 mins. Works great!
    • sneak 7y ago
      Why do you trust AWS more with your traffic than an ISP?
      • mariomariomario 7y ago
        Because AWS is going to have to answer to pissed off Enterprise customers if there was ever a story to come out that they're handling customer data inappropriately.
      • leesalminen 7y ago
        For me the value is more about having ad blocking at the dns level and the vpn is just a way to get that on iOS/Android devices where I don’t control dns servers. When out and about on 4G, pages load a lot faster with all the garbage blocked.
    • hsshah 7y ago
      I have PiHole as well. How to verify that FB SDK requests are blocked by it?