ControlD is not very stable in my experience.
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Might depend on where you are located? I havenāt used them a ton - Iām an AdGuard DNS subscriber- but I have no issues with Control Dās sever stability or speeds in North America.
But they are also based out of Canada IIRC, so very possible that is a different story elsewhere.
I have a premium NextDNS that I use with Brave but I have always used the default Mullvad DNS for Mullvad Browser, as I had read somewhere that it helps with fingerprinting and Mullvad Browser + NextDNS stands out more vs the default Mullvad DNS. Now that they are closing it, would it be better to just use Quad 9 like they recommend or are there any downsides to using NextDNS?
Iāve also experienced a lot of problems every time when trying to use Control D. This was in Poland, and the same issues occurred on multiple devices and networks (with no VPN or similar involved). The servers were just unresponsive on a regular basis, often leading to DNS failing to resolve. In the end, I just gave up on them completely.
Interesting. Thanks for the insight. I havenāt used Control D much, but I do occasionally use their free DNS option if something in my current AdGuard setup is causing issues, but I donāt want to change blocklists OR mess with allowlists.
In that limited sense I have had no such issues, but that is disappointing that others are encountering issues.
Iām currently using AdGuard and Quad9 DNS servers on my AdGuard Home DNS server. I was using Mullvad, but migrated because of this very issue. Itās an unfortunate set of events.