Would you recommend NextDNS?

Why not just a VPN towards your home? All benefits at once. Maybe some latency.

NextDNS has been excellent for me. Only "issue" I have had is that it doesn't always play nice with wifi captive portals. I typically have to disable nextdns on my device, join, then re-enable.

I use as as I don't even want to bother hosting a PiHole, and honestly it works quite well. Set it as a DoT on Android and you have it outside from home without having to think about it.

I use PiHole and installed Wireguard on my RaspPi. Works really well, and I can bring the PiHole-functionality everywhere while easily toggle it on and off.

Worked well for me, used it for couple of months, maybe an entire year. Re-installed my OS and didn't put it back.

its Pretty good actually. I use it most of the time. I also use quad9 and mullvade sometimes

I like it, the interface is super easy to use and I like that you can put a suffix in the url to separate a device name for custom rules or filtering.

I pay the $20 per year and use it as a backup for my local and vps wireguard/pihole installs. Works great and you can use custom local dns records for your Lan if you wish. Plus you can use it on android/ios without any extra software installs.

I've been using NextDNS for about 1.5 years as a paid customer.

Sometimes I run into these weird connection issues where nothing loads. I turn off private DNS on Android then turn it back on and pages start loading again. I haven't had this issue on iPadOS and Windows.

I don't know if it's an Android thing or a NextDNS thing.

I wish there was an easier way to enable/disable it on their website as sometimes you need to access a website blocked by your filters and it can be cumbersome to remove private DNS in Windows' settings.

Other than that it's worked well.

I personally use Mullvad, although it’s not as customizable as Pihole/NextDNS.

Fyi - you CAN use your pihole when you're away from home. Overall high level steps are:

1. Download PiVPN on the rPi

2. Set up a client

3. Download wireguard app on mobile

4. Import config you generated in step 2

5. ???

6. PROFIT!!!

Used it for a few months. Never had any problem but now moved to adguard DNS. Got a great deal for 5 years, way cheaper than nextdns when i pay yearly. Includes adguard adguard block, vpn and dns.

If both cost the same i would choose nextdns. Nextdns feels a little bit faster.

I dont like ControlD. The webui is a mess, for me personally. NextDNS webui is easier to understand.

@andylicious1337 its fine. But the free tier 300k limit might be tight for 2-3 devices. Personally I've been using https://github.com/sieusus/lilac-gateway-pihole, sort of a self managed pihole running on cloudflare and github cli.

I’ve been using it for the past 4 years and it has been rock solid for me. I use the oisd list with some of the overlapping security lists disabled and it just works. I never get complaints from family members either. It’s enabled on my home network, iOS/MacOS/Linux devices and in Tailscale.

I'm using it since a few years now across all our mobile devices and our home internet. It's working great, if you ignore the occasional 'can't reach DNS' problem with some access points. Apart from this I love the customisability and ease of use.

I host my own technetium (recursive DNS) server and have my phone set to always be connected to my network through wireguard. I have nextdns as one of my upstreams along with mullvad and a few others in case those don't work.

Fwy would recommend it; if you feel you can afford what they charge for their paid usage plan(s).

Fwy has used it for our own house; and it serves as the main DNS resolver for our PFSense box running in forwarding mode. Fwy is however transitioning to PFBlockerNG; and it's own ability to block things via DNS locally; but will still be using NextDNS and probably Adguard's DNS servers as backup/bootstrap resolvers once the plan Fwy has paid for is expired...assuming our house does not vote to keep NextDNS.

Either way; it's only like about $25 a year if I recall correctly. Fwy doesn't hate using NextDNS and it is a very good resolver; with lots of useful controls and portability as well as offering proper encrypted DNS service; which is invaluable on weird networks you may encounter when using cellular service or on the go via WiFi.

Yes. And I'm using Tasker to automatically switch the Android setting to use Private DNS when not connected to my Wifi SSID. That way I have never used up the free usage of 300,000 queries.

I use CloudFlare Zero Trust instead which is better.