Question NextDNS setups

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rashmi said:
AdGuardDNS, OISD, and HageziPro are what I'm experimenting with. Should I include both Fanboy's Annoyance and PeterLowe filters, totaling roughly 4,000 entries?
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How adding filter lists to NextDNS counts as extra entries?
 
rashmi said:
AdGuardDNS, OISD, and HageziPro are what I'm experimenting with. Should I include both Fanboy's Annoyance and PeterLowe filters, totaling roughly 4,000 entries?
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My advice is to use one or two good filters in nextdns, more number of filters creates unnecessary problems. I use only 2 filters, nextdns filter and hagezi multi pro++. In my experience more lists creates some blocks which doesn't get recorded in the log file by nextdns. So it creates issues to unblock if the blocking is a false positive. The rest you can add to your browser addon.
 
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Does NextDNS have a free "public" secure DNS? Do you have any suggestions for blocking TLDs?

The installed NextDNS certificate on Windows shows the expiry date as 2040, but the browsers state the certificate for the blocking screen has expired. I wonder if they will fix it, as their support is nonexistent these days.
 
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rashmi said:
Does NextDNS have a free "public" secure DNS? Do you have any suggestions for blocking TLDs?

The installed NextDNS certificate on Windows shows the expiry date as 2040, but the browsers state the certificate for the blocking screen has expired. I wonder if they will fix it, as their support is nonexistent these days.
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Is AdAway discontinued? I made ad-blocking lists using AdAway's and Peter Lowe's lists for Cloudflare Gateway to block ads on Android and iPad devices. NextDNS shows the AdAway filter was last updated two years ago. NextDNS needs to replace the several obsolete filter lists with more current and effective ones.
 
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Brahman said:
My advice is to use one or two good filters in nextdns, more number of filters creates unnecessary problems. I use only 2 filters, nextdns filter and hagezi multi pro++. In my experience more lists creates some blocks which doesn't get recorded in the log file by nextdns. So it creates issues to unblock if the blocking is a false positive. The rest you can add to your browser addon.
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This has been a very insightful and helpful thread :) Please feel free for anyone to answer this....

I just signed up with a free nextdns account, should I disable TrafficLight and let nextdns work alone, or won't it matter in that they may work in different ways? Or what about Osprey's ad blocker/web protection being used with nextdns, or could that cause overlaps, FP's and surfing slow downs?

In the Security settings I enabled "Block Newly Registered Domains", should "DNS Rebinding Protection" be enabled also, or could that cause webpage issues?
 
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Jonny Quest said:
This has been a very insightful and helpful thread :) Please feel free for anyone to answer this....

I just signed up with a free nextdns account, should I disable TrafficLight and let nextdns work alone, or won't it matter in that they may work in different ways? Or what about Osprey's ad blocker/web protection being used with nextdns, or could that cause overlaps, FP's and surfing slow downs?

In the Security settings I enabled "Block Newly Registered Domains", should "DNS Rebinding Protection" be enabled also, or could that cause webpage issues?
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In my experience the setting "DNS rebinding Protection" doesn't cause any real issues with browsing. But I advise you to enable the logs, use the settings one by one, give enough time with each setting, check the logs for any fase positive blocks and unblock if necessary. I would suggest to switch off any other filtering apps / add-ons till you are comfortable with what nextdns provides, once you have created your own "allowlist" which removes all false positives, you can re-enable all add-ons and other filtering apps. Always remember "less is more better" 😉
 
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Jonny Quest said:
In the Security settings I enabled "Block Newly Registered Domains", should "DNS Rebinding Protection" be enabled also, or could that cause webpage issues?
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"Block Newly Registered Domains" only caused issue for me when I watch pirated sports streams and "DNS Rebinding Protection" sometimes blocks seeders/peers when I download things from torrents. So, for these two reasons alone I keep them off. Anyone who doesn't do what I do probably should have these on.

For adblocking filters, I recommend, AdGuard DNS filter, OISD (big) and Hagezi Multi Pro++.
NextDNS have their own threat intelligence option but it doesn't have Hagezi Threat Intelligence filter (TIF). So Hagezi himself said that anyone who cannot use his TIF filter should use OISD along with their preferred Hagezi filter as OISD apparently can block a few more malicious/phishing sites.
AdGuard DNS is already part of Hagezi Pro filters, but I still use it in NextDNS because AdGuard and OISD updates many times throughout the day while Hagezi filters update twice or sometimes once a day.
So, using AdGuard + OISD means you stay more up to date.
Do not use NextDNS's own Ads & Trackers Blocklist. It's not good to begin with and they usually don't fix false positives.
 
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