I’m asking for your opinion on Proton VPN + NextDNS via YogaDNS. I know that YogaDNS isn’t open source, but its developer has a Microsoft certificate. And for a long time, it’s been recommended by NextDNS on their website.
The reason for using YogaDNS is that I think Proton’s NetShield is insufficient, and by just using a custom DNS, you don’t get encrypted traffic.
I’ve been using YogaDNS for a few days now, running it as a background service. Everything works very well. Download around 900mb/s, upload around 400mb/s, ping 12, jitter 0. NAT Strict, and these are all through the VPN.
I know I should trust the YogaDNS developers here, but the alternative is unencrypted DNS.
Can I continue like this? And my threat model is just trying to maintain privacy as much as possible.
Yes, it is good. I am using it for years. If Proton managed to add secure DNS support like many other VPN providers, we wouldn’t have to use YogaDNS but nope. They couldn’t even add IPv6 DNS (let alone IPv6 itself)
I don’t see it as a big problem even if it’s not open source, because it’s been on the market for several years now, and I really like how easy and clear it was to get it working from start to finish.
Your answer convinced me enough that I’m buying the Pro version so I can use it as a service even after a month. Thanks!