• Thermal_shocked@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Nextdns was $22/year and worked very well for me for 3 years. I maintain my own now, but for many people it’s perfectly fine to pay for a working service, not everyone wants or needs to fine tune their DNS like some. Just because it’s free doesn’t mean it’s better and vice versa.

    • Adderbox76@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      Never found a free one that works as well at blocking ads and trackers.

            • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              11 months ago
              1. Depends on the region it’s operated in.
              2. I pulled a number out of my behind :D
              3. [Insert 3rd reason here]
              • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                11 months ago
                1. I doubt you could get that high, honestly. Even at a high energy cost. They sip power.
                2. Fair enough ;D
                3. Most compelling reason of all, you’ve changed my mind. ;P
          • sherlockholmez@lemmy.ml
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            11 months ago

            I deployed it for a while on my home server, but in the end, the uptime wasn’t really satisfactory and I didn’t want to lose my ad blocker due to fibre damages due to poor weather or similar issues, so I decided to go for NextDNS.

            • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              11 months ago

              How can the uptime be not satisfactory.
              If it doesnt work, you either set it up incorrecrly or your server/home infrastructure has issues.

              If the internet goes out due to bad weather, I think I you have other problems than no ad block, no?

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                11 months ago

                Not regular bad weather, but torrential weather. ISPs do have downtime once in a while as well.

                I can only do 3 9s of uptime for now, and it makes enough sense for me to pay for the convenience.