[i2shar]

Haven’t used NextDNS but have used PiHole and currently running AdGuard Home. But if you are paying $20/year just for DNS encryption/blocking, you may consider upgrading to Mullvad which gives you DNS Ad blocking but also IP anonymity, tunneling etc.

[ThePowerOfFuet]

The two are not the same; with NextDNS I can choose to enable logging and see all requests from each device, as well as allowlist/denylist any domain/subdomain I want.

[Rastonbury]

Not familiar with pihole but are there not ways to do those things on it?

[schleck8]

The issue being that it decreases your connection speed and increases your latency while good DNS naturally doesn't.

[oceanplexian]

Except all of these third party VPN and DNS type services are literally NSA honeypots and privacy nightmares. I get that you have to do DNS lookups somewhere, but I'm not going to make it ridiculously trivial for a bad actor to scoop up all that data conveniently in a central location.

[screamingninja]

>> consider upgrading to Mullvad

> all of these third party VPN and DNS type services are literally NSA honeypots

https://mullvad.net/en/help/privacy-policy

It is up to you to decide what you believe, but Mullvad is a swiss company that does not ask for your personal information for signup and even allows payment in cash. You hurt your own credibility each time you make an unqualified claim without looking into it.

[hackeman300]

Mullvad is an NSA honeypot? Got any sources on that?