Website [image] GitHub - hagezi/dns-servers: HaGeZi DNS: Free, Non-Commercial EU Public DNS... HaGeZi DNS: Free, Non-Commercial EU Public DNS Servers Short description It is the DNS service from Hagezi, who is known for his blocklists. It is privacy fr…

Hmm, do you think it is better than Adguard DNS? I am looking for Adguard DNS alternatives right now…

Just curious, but what dont you like about AdGuard DNS?

[image] Footnote5444: what dont you like about AdGuard DNS? Thay was founded in not really privacy-preserving country. Some employees still work from there. Since we cannot check what’s going on on server side, i afraid of some “big brother” things.

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I’m far from an “AdGuard Stan”, but I do think it is worth mentioning to your concerns that AdGuard has a pretty long history now of offering privacy-related products without issues. The employees thing feels a bit unfair. How do we know that other privacy-related firms do not have employees on the…

Adguard DNS lets you import and use whatever blocklist you want?

Yeah (depending on what you use) One place I find Adguard to be atrociously bad is in clearly and concisely communicating what services they offer and how they differ. They have 3 different DNS products that I am aware of (2 are hosted services, 1 is self-hosted). From simplest to most complex the…

I don’t have any experience with it. I’m using NextDNS at the moment. How do you add your own list? Do you upload them or do you select from a list? If so, NextDNS also lets you add a list, provided it’s a list that NextDNS supports.

What you are describing is different from what AdGuard Private DNS now offers. NextDNS and AdGuard Private DNS allow you to add specific filter lists from a selection they decide to offer. I will note that NextDNS has not updated their list offerings in years and many of the options are no longer su…

[image] iluvprivacy: I don’t have any experience with it. I’m using NextDNS at the moment. How do you add your own list? Both Adguard ‘private’ DNS and NextDNS let you choose your lists from a curated selection of lists. In addition to this, Adguard ‘private’ DNS has two more methods of addi…

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