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This is a very important detail. Adblock in 2026 is necessary and DNS will transparently do a lot of that work for you. It isn't just about lightning fast looku
by 1970-01-01 22d ago
This is a very important detail. Adblock in 2026 is necessary and DNS will transparently do a lot of that work for you. It isn't just about lightning fast lookups and five-nines uptime anymore.
- cortesoft 22d agoFor blocking, I would much rather run my own service.
- LetsGetTechnicl 22d agoI've been loving the Pihole setup I just set up. It uses Quad9 as the upstream provider and then I do all the blocking myself. I used to use NextDNS but this is so much better and free!
- vardalab 22d agoTechnitium is also really good as a performant local blocker and recursive dns server. I have been running mine for years now and it is fast as well.
- upcoming-sesame 21d agoHow do you block ads when you're outside of your home network? Do you expose your pihole outside?
- cortesoft 21d agoVPN back to your home network?
- upcoming-sesame 21d agoI've assumed the latency suffers then
- cortesoft 21d agoYou could set it up to only route DNS, but that might be complicated for most people
- LetsGetTechnicl 19d agoYeah I have a VPN set up. I don't have the best internet so sometimes it's slow (mostly just app downloads seem to take the longest, so I'll just disable it and then re-enable it.) But it works just fine for streaming, including video
- LetsGetTechnicl 19d agoI set up a WireGuard VPN and use that to connect back to my home network. It's fast enough for what I do on my phone.