It is cat and mouse between YT and adblockers.
Free DNS servers
- Thread starter Parkinsond
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It is. Sooner or later they'll realize it's too much work and will give up eventually. We saw this happening with Twitch.
NextDNS for IPv4, DOH, and private DNS ping time, DNSBench (IPv4 only) benchmark, and no errors in Windows Event Viewer. The free tier drops to "no filtering" after the limit is reached, but basic ad and malware blocking seem to remain. The "adblock-tester.com" tests indicate equal effectiveness in the "no filtering" free options for NextDNS, AdGuard, and ControlD. Using Firefox with uBlock origin eliminates any leads in the browser. For reliability, using NextDNS as the primary and AdGuard as the secondary seems to be better.
For my location, DOH and private DNS ping time are only 10 ms; the rest are 30 ms (except Quad9 and Cloudflare, which don't block ads). I only do IPv4 pings.
For my location, DOH and private DNS ping time are only 10 ms; the rest are 30 ms (except Quad9 and Cloudflare, which don't block ads). I only do IPv4 pings.
I was using controld (malware + ads) as primary and dns0 Zero as secondary, but started to use NextDNS hours ago.
The fasted in my area is Quad9 with latency of 150+ ms; controld 450-500 ms; dns0 Zero almost the same.
No. Google specifically causes Adguard filters to lag up to the point where they prompt you to disable your adblocker. If you use Easylist by itself it doesn't happen. I've tried every combination and narrowed it down to if I disable all of Adguards filters, Google/YouTube leaves me alone. It's clear they have a way to recognize which filter lists are being used. They also banned Adguard from the Google TV store, their agenda is clearly targeted.
I use free ControlD with oisd full filter. I tried Hagezi but it was slow for whatever reason.
AdGuard free is second best, great malware blocking and decent Ad blocking.
NextDNS free is not great for a home router because of the 300k queries limitation.
AdGuard free is second best, great malware blocking and decent Ad blocking.
NextDNS free is not great for a home router because of the 300k queries limitation.
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Tried NextDns free; browsing is less snappy compared to ControlD free, may be due to more filters and restrictions.
Trying dnsforge.de; looks promising.
Trying dnsforge.de; looks promising.
I know you said you wanted free, but ControlD is just awesome. It has a lot of features that NextDNS lacks, like import/export of rules. If possible, I highly suggest getting the paid Control a partial.
In addition, controld had the highest score on testing for malware blocking.
Its ad blocking is also effective. The ControlD Free Family DNS works well on my parents' Android phones. @n8chavez confirmed the ControlD paid service is excellent. NextDNS is a defunct service for me, and its parental controls are insufficient. I think they rely on website lists or filters for parental controls, not a categorization service.
Ad blocking is the same for controld, adguard, and dnsforge.de; all are blocking less ads than extensions, but are okay if you do not need extensions.
Yes, DNS services aren't as effective at ad blocking as extensions. ControlD blocks ads in most apps, but not YouTube. Revanced is excellent for ad-free YouTube. The ControlD paid service offers relaxed, strict, and AI modes, plus community filter lists for ad blocking, if I recall correctly.
Extensions work just fine for YT ads; ghostery is great, and uBlock origin lite but have to move the slider from optimal to complete to work on YT.
My phone gets connected to internet only to link Whatsapp windows app or to update its apps; otherwise, it is offline.
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