Love this service and wrote a blog post about it with some of my blacklist and whitelist entries:
https://calebyers.com/blog/dns-ad-blocking
AdGuard DNS: A Privacy-Oriented DNS Server
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Re: AdGuard DNS: A Privacy-Oriented DNS Server
#52Misleading claim: any external DNS server is not private. Your requests are directed to a third-party. I suspect data-mining you is how they pay their server bills. The correct technical solution for privacy is running your own DNS server locally.
https://1.1.1.1/ > We will never sell your data or use it to target ads. Period. > We’ve retained KPMG to audit our systems annually
I use OpenDNS, but I see they are now owned by Cisco. May need to reevaluate.
Re: AdGuard DNS: A Privacy-Oriented DNS Server
#53You can use hololo DNS changer on the Play store to point to a permanent DNS server. I did this and built my own version of pi hole... The stats are at opens3.net and so is the DNS service. Blocks 140000 domains
Re: AdGuard DNS: A Privacy-Oriented DNS Server
#54I never liked the idea of using DNS services for filtering web content. For one, it seems like the wrong tool for the job. Filtered content can simply switch to identifying content by IP address instead of DNS, correct? Or change DNS constantly. And for two, of course there are concerns with handing someone your DNS queries in return for filtering...
There are certainly ways to bypass dns filtering, but as far as I know it's the most performant, and effective, way to do it.
I wouldn't use a third party service for that, preferring instead to use pihole.
Re: AdGuard DNS: A Privacy-Oriented DNS Server
#55Has/Is anyone here tried/using https://zenz-solutions.de/personaldnsfilter/ for filtering Ads/Tracking?
Re: AdGuard DNS: A Privacy-Oriented DNS Server
#56I've been looking for something like this for quite some time. I was hoping Cloudflare will offer it but they haven't My main questions are How do we know if we can trust them with our data? How fast are they compared to Cloudflare ? I wish there was something like Signal but for DNS. Similar in the way that you don't have to trust them to know they are not doing nefarious things with your dns queries. I know I can i…
>I was hoping Cloudflare will offer it but they haven't
That would not be in their best interest, I'd imagine, as CF probably hosts loads of sites you'd want to filter.
Re: AdGuard DNS: A Privacy-Oriented DNS Server
#57update: They say they do not log anything, and pass no information upstream to the authoritative DNS server. ------ I didn't see anything in the announcement about logging or other privacy related questions. The FAQ also didn't list this information. The only thing they mention about privacy is how a dns request to them is protected, but not what they do with the data. Did I miss something? ------- Reading their priv…
I suspect this really screws with the DNS tricks used by many CDNs to route requests to near-by servers. So I would not be surprised if, when using this, YouTube, Netflix, etc, get much slower.
That's the first thing I thought; How does this effect georouting?
Re: AdGuard DNS: A Privacy-Oriented DNS Server
#58I tried this a while ago, and it broke one of my sites. No idea how or why. There are no ads on the site or problems with any ad-blockers. Put a bad taste in my mouth. Edited to add: But I like the idea.
Quite possibly blocking CDN address space, or shared hosting. Pretty easy to end up blocking way more than intended if the hostlists aren't sanitized.
Re: AdGuard DNS: A Privacy-Oriented DNS Server
#59I never liked the idea of using DNS services for filtering web content. For one, it seems like the wrong tool for the job. Filtered content can simply switch to identifying content by IP address instead of DNS, correct? Or change DNS constantly. And for two, of course there are concerns with handing someone your DNS queries in return for filtering...
>>And for two, of course there are concerns with handing someone your DNS queries in return for filtering...
Correct, but probabaly better then to give it to Google or your ISP for free!
Re: AdGuard DNS: A Privacy-Oriented DNS Server
#60The instructions to use adguard DNS on their website doesn't contain how to use adguard DNS over TLS with Android. For anyone running on Android 9 (edit) or later, navigate to Settings -> WiFi and Internet -> Private DNS Select Private DNS provider hostname Add dns.adguard.org (DNS over TLS) Click save. Visit https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/ and you should see browser's 'Server not found' instead of Google's (dis…
If your goal is to get rid of ads, why would you use _anything_ made by an ad company?