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Hi what exactly is your offer with RethinkDNS vs lets say, nextdns?

• ignoramous 5y ago
  Hi: NextDNS is the gold-standard and many capable alternatives have cropped up in its wake in the recent times like windscribe's controld.com but RethinkDNS is not it. Our primary objective is anti-censorship, and so, we make it simple for folks to deploy their own DoH (which means all our code is open source). Today, the serverless DoH stub resolver deploys to cloudflare workers but we plan to support deno.com/deploy and fly.io soon (already have it working in our development branches but the incompatibility between node and deno is causing a bit of pain to merge with mainline). RethinkDNS is the reference serverless DoH deployment, if you will. We support DNS-based content-blocking too (out of sheer need for it from our users) but believe the right avenue to block content is either in-app where possible (like uBlockOrigin in Firefox) or at the IP-layer (not DNS), and hence we also build a Firewall (due to limited time, the RethinkDNS + Firewall app is Android-only, for the time being [1]). That said, we do plan to achieve parity with NextDNS, but that's going to happen over a period of time since our team of 3 is stretched thin between building the firewall (too much complexity!) and the dns (too much work!). [0] https://github.com/serverless-dns/serverless-dns https://github.com/serverless-dns/serverless-dns [1] https://github.com/celzero/rethink-app https://github.com/celzero/rethink-app