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<blockquote data-quote="n8chavez" data-source="post: 1057656" data-attributes="member: 90863">Many VPNs now have DNS filtering.&nbsp;&nbsp; Mullvad, hide.me, ivpn, and airvpn, among others I&#039;m sure all have that feature.&nbsp; This is great in theory; having your IPs coming from the same place.&nbsp; But how do you know it&#039;s actually filtering anything?&nbsp; There&#039;s no webgui, or stats to indicated allows vs blocks.&nbsp; So how do we know how effective it is?&nbsp; I&#039;ve been trying to answer these questions for myself and I&#039;ve come up empty.&nbsp; I&#039;ve tested using both Mullvad and hide.me, and I&#039;ve yet to see it actually block anything.&nbsp; With both of these VPNs you can set the DNS blocking category, such as trackers, malware, porn, and ads.&nbsp; With both of these VPNs, I toggled the categories to block them all.&nbsp; I disconnected the VPNs and reconnected, just to be sure.&nbsp; I would think that would be enough to block the categories I chose.&nbsp; But nothing seems to have been block; I was still able to access sites I know things that should have been blocked.&nbsp; Does this happen with anyone else?&nbsp; Maybe I&#039;m doing something wrong, but it doesn&#039;t seem to me that anything is being blocked using VPN DNS filtering.As always, these are just musings from a self-proclaimed idiot.Thoughts?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="n8chavez, post: 1057656, member: 90863"] Many VPNs now have DNS filtering. Mullvad, hide.me, ivpn, and airvpn, among others I'm sure all have that feature. This is great in theory; having your IPs coming from the same place. But how do you know it's actually filtering anything? There's no webgui, or stats to indicated allows vs blocks. So how do we know how effective it is? I've been trying to answer these questions for myself and I've come up empty. I've tested using both Mullvad and hide.me, and I've yet to see it actually block anything. With both of these VPNs you can set the DNS blocking category, such as trackers, malware, porn, and ads. With both of these VPNs, I toggled the categories to block them all. I disconnected the VPNs and reconnected, just to be sure. I would think that would be enough to block the categories I chose. But nothing seems to have been block; I was still able to access sites I know things that should have been blocked. Does this happen with anyone else? Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but it doesn't seem to me that anything is being blocked using VPN DNS filtering. As always, these are just musings from a self-proclaimed idiot. Thoughts? [/QUOTE]

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