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I'd like to hear more about this. Can you provide an example of censorship on X?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_suspensions
The big feature miss for me in this announcement is baked in support for configuration sync between servers. Redundant DNS is common and it would be nice if pi-hole supported this oob. Making it even better would be an ability to see stats across all synced servers from one location.
I love PiHole. I run my PiHole on a small cloud VM that I use for several projects, but put it behind a VPN that's configured to only forward DNS lookups, then VPN into it from my phone. So many advantages behind this setup. - Since only DNS lookups are tunneled, I don't have to worry about tunneling ALL my traffic and paying egress fees - Blocks ads in ALL apps, not just my browser - If it's acting up, I can just di…
> Don't have to expose my home IP address and open a port for the world to start banging on Is that really an issue if all you're exposing is the VPN port? Wireguard for instance has industrial-grade encryption. Even open port 51820 should be fine
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> Really weird, because there's less stuff in it. It's also not subsidized by selling your user data.
Is this really true? The margin must be huge. I've seen 4K smart tv's for half the price of 4k monitors.
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Pihole being a self-hosted service and this being a third party one, I would say the target group is somewhat different.
it's more than that - an app running on your internal network is going to have way better latency than nextdns
This is my latency (ping.nextdns.io):
zepto-cph (IPv6) 12 ms (anycast1, ultralow2)
zepto-cph 13 ms (anycast1, ultralow2)
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Why is it ironic? They’re not providing load balancing or anything similar
Sorry if the point wasn't clear. The service/device dedicated to killing connections (blocking dns, whatever) can't/won't serve my connection.
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However you can't use it on the phone while not at home (aside from using vpn/wireguard), but nextdns allows it. As for the latency - is it really noticeable?
dns latency is the single biggest reason people think their internet is slow imho
On the go, over 5G, those 12ms won't make much of a difference.
Considering that people deploy PiHole on Raspberry Pi W models, over wifi, you won't lose much running NextDNS, but you gain dns blacklisting on all networks, as opposed to just your home network (or via VPN)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_suspensions
Let me put it another way; can you provide some examples of ideas, topics or opinions that I are likely to be censored if I posted them on X?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dimitarmixmihov/2025/02/17/x-is...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_suspensions
Let me put it another way; can you provide some examples of ideas, topics or opinions that I are likely to be censored if I posted them on X?
In my experience Pi hole is a very worthwhile investment. People who used my internet when I had one would remark how much faster it was. Everything in general seems faster, even things that you wouldn't think of. I typically use Brave for browsing which has good ad blocking capabilities, but this adds a whole additional layer. The only reason I don't use one now is that I travel a lot more so it's irrelevant, and I…
Wouldn’t a smart tv do something ... smarter than just using the default dns given to it by the network? I’m not up to speed on this stuff but I thought pihole only blocked the simplest stuff from devices that play nice?
I don't KNOW of any doing it but I can't imagine it'd be too hard for them to do.