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Pi-Hole vs AdGuard vs NextDNS (monero.town)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I use Pi-Hole and works great. I've heard about AdGuard and seems the same thing as PiHole, but you have to install an app/extension. Everyone in this community recommend NextDNS. Whats the difference between them?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

… any app can bypass easily your DHCP DNS provided…

In my network it can only do that if the app has a hardcoded encrypted DNS server because I use NAT rules to force all unencrypted DNS to be processed by my OPNsense (which uses NextDNS as upstream DNS servers). And I highly doubt many apps even have a hardcoded DNS server anyway (no matter if unencrypted or encrypted).

and as I said, I don’t install any weird app on my phone, I just use it as a phone, to communicate, chat and to download podcasts to listen on night.

That's your personal use case but not everyone elses. I do much more with my phone. For example browsing. And I think most people do it too. Anyway, as long as you use mobile internet even your OS on your phone could spy on you with tracker domains. Most people don't use a custom ROM so you're just one of few people who this doesn't apply to.

While you just win at your local home network… xD

Wrong. I use NextDNS so I have it everywhere. ;)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and I was talking about Pi-Hole

Well, you said "you" so I thought you were talking about me since you replied to my comment.

Firefox and Telegram for example has built-in DNS if I’m not wrong. (you can disable it easily)

Right. I don't know about Telegram but in Firefoxes case I think it's disabled by default. I specifically checked that on my Firefox so it won't bypass my OPNsense.

We are sharing our use cases. And my context was “I don’t understand why people even talks about Pi-Hole”

You don't see it, do you? First you talk about your use case but then you talk about other people. So not your use case anymore. In their use case a Pi-hole, AdGuard Home, NextDNS or whatever else maybe makes sense and isn't a bad choice.

EDIT: Also, I think using your phone for other things is wrong, they aren’t really designed for that, they aren’t that secure as a PC can be.

Erm... what?? Smartphones are designed for many different things. Browsing the internet is just one of many things it's made for. It's called "smartphone" for a reason.