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not really. it's about the blocking occurring in reach of the user (client) or not (infrastructure quirk that has to be worked around)
DNS isn't "infrastructure". It's just a simple key-value store, like Redis or something.
the fact that for-profit shops wanted a piece of the intelligence within made it surface and now the webheads are shitting on it like there is no tomorrow
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Assuming I am looking at the right comment, you didn't really expand/explain all that much. If I am correct, your argument boils down to blocking happening outside the direct control of the user. This technically is true, as you don't have an icon in your browser like you would have with an extension. At the same time, it being outside the control of the user is not really true if the user is also the person in contr…
it's a practical argument as soon as someone else has to use it
Even if someone else has to use it. Certainly, when it is someone in their household who can access the administration for their client devices/applications as well.
Other people affected might be those who make use of the authors wifi. Where the author can also opt for guest wifi using regular DNS. Or not even do it on router basis and really a per-client basis.
The only context in which it is potentially "evil" or malicious is when people unknowingly get things blocked or redirected to the wrong things. But that is pretty far removed from the context of this article.
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I’d like to see a comparison
Half of the article is literally a comparison between pihole and adguard...
I’d say exact opposite. Now you’re sharing data with multiple parties and each is potentially getting enough data to extrapolate the whole picture
Fun project. But I would just use https://pi-hole.net/
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DNS isn't "infrastructure". It's just a simple key-value store, like Redis or something.
dns more or less was infrastructure for the last 30 years. nobody cared. the fact that for-profit shops wanted a piece of the intelligence within made it surface and now the webheads are shitting on it like there is no tomorrow
Run a better DNS server and see for yourself that there isn't any man behind that curtain.
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Make it a tenth. I have two small VPS with two different providers, and I am paying a total of $25/year for them.
I'm a bit old fashioned. its not self hosting if you dont hold the hardware :-P
It's what I'm doing since we switched ISPs and now we are behind CGNAT (better connection otherwise though).