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I've been using this service on my dev laptop, tablet, and phone for a few years now. It works well, and every time I turn it off, I immediately notice a huge d

I've been using this service on my dev laptop, tablet, and phone for a few years now. It works well, and every time I turn it off, I immediately notice a huge difference as it blocks so much garbage that brings my phone's browser, especially, to a crawl. I have never paid a cent for it. I still don't understand how they can make money... unless I'm actually the product being sold (which I was always under the impression that they didn't sell or share user data). Who knows.

infecto 4y ago
I pay for it, the cap of 300k queries a month on the free tier was far too little for a household of two. Depends on what type of devices are running on you network of course but I hit 845,809 queries for the last 30 days. I assume a number of people are paying for it. easier than running a pihole locally.
- Quarrel 4y ago
  I pay for it too. The 300k is super easy to hit in a house with a few devices in it.
- Fritsdehacker 4y ago
  Same here. And it is not expensive.
- haswell 4y ago
  Just recently started using NextDNS, and yeah, I hit those 300K pretty quickly. I noticed that some apps/devices would continue querying pretty aggressively after being blocked, and this seemed to eat through the available queries pretty quickly. But $20/year is such a great deal IMO it was an insta-buy for me.
- ranguna 4y ago
  I was far from hitting the limit and I started paying for it either way, this feels like one of those project that should get all the money it can get.
pstadler 4y ago
My devices in my home network (2 adults, 1 small kid) did around 1M queries in the past 30 days. Close to 70k were blocked. Using this service has a huge positive impact, but can be a bit on the aggressive side depending on your settings. I‘ve added a dozen of domains to the allowlist during the past two years. Happily paying for it.
- Melatonic 4y ago
  Yea I have had to do a lot of allowlist customizing but I also am doing a pretty aggressive set of filters and options. I also have a second profile that does much, much less and have family on that one.
andrewaylett 4y ago
I suspect the free tier falls (at least in some sense) under "marketing" rather than being expected to return a direct profit. It's enough to be useful, but (I assume) little enough that enough people subscribe. For comparison, my account has roughly 3.5M queries over the past 30 days, and 298k of those are to a single domain :P.

infecto 4y ago

I pay for it, the cap of 300k queries a month on the free tier was far too little for a household of two. Depends on what type of devices are running on you network of course but I hit 845,809 queries for the last 30 days. I assume a number of people are paying for it. easier than running a pihole locally.

Quarrel 4y ago
I pay for it too. The 300k is super easy to hit in a house with a few devices in it.
Fritsdehacker 4y ago
Same here. And it is not expensive.
haswell 4y ago
Just recently started using NextDNS, and yeah, I hit those 300K pretty quickly. I noticed that some apps/devices would continue querying pretty aggressively after being blocked, and this seemed to eat through the available queries pretty quickly. But $20/year is such a great deal IMO it was an insta-buy for me.
ranguna 4y ago
I was far from hitting the limit and I started paying for it either way, this feels like one of those project that should get all the money it can get.

pstadler 4y ago

My devices in my home network (2 adults, 1 small kid) did around 1M queries in the past 30 days. Close to 70k were blocked. Using this service has a huge positive impact, but can be a bit on the aggressive side depending on your settings. I‘ve added a dozen of domains to the allowlist during the past two years. Happily paying for it.

Melatonic 4y ago
Yea I have had to do a lot of allowlist customizing but I also am doing a pretty aggressive set of filters and options. I also have a second profile that does much, much less and have family on that one.

andrewaylett 4y ago

I suspect the free tier falls (at least in some sense) under "marketing" rather than being expected to return a direct profit. It's enough to be useful, but (I assume) little enough that enough people subscribe. For comparison, my account has roughly 3.5M queries over the past 30 days, and 298k of those are to a single domain :P.