A #privacy firewall that replaces your ISP’s data harvesting with encrypted, rule based control. This #guide walks you through the complete setup.
https://untraceabledigitaldissident.com/set-up-nextdns-dns-privacy-guide
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Thanks!
Bonus points: you can also enforce parental controls at home and you can get pretty detailed analytics on the requests coming from your network
I use ControlD - Full Control
Excellent guide, thanks! Do you know if there would be any conflict with Tor connectivity to one’s own node or Tor file server?
Shouldn't be. If there then just put them on the allow list
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I think you're missing a couple of things for your guide to be even more actionable.
1) there are dozens of blocking lists. The biggest ones are enough for most people. One of my favorites is the telemetry list for smart devices. It blocks all known trackers from smart tvs, laptops and other modern privacy threats. Great to have on your router
2) troubleshooting denylists: if a website you use stops working you need to
A) go to logs and try again. Filter "blocked requests only"
B) add the domain to the allowlist and wait a few minutes.
C) try again until it works.
3) most decent VPNs allow you to add the custom DNS in settings. Adding it there guarantees that you don't leak any DNS requests (wouldn't be to your ISP but to the VPN's DNS server)
4) blocking things that aren't in lists. Just watch over the logs when accessing a website you think is sneaky. Then go adding them to the denylist.
5) remember to name your device (the instructions are in the connection details) Or create a different profile per device. I typically have a laxxed router profile and a heavy blocking device profile. To avoid issues like guests and your loved ones not getting to access normies services when on your WiFi.
Point 2 of what I shared was the main concern some friends had over banking apps getting blocked if you were too heavy handed. But following that you can pretty much enable selectively (or Temporarily when you need them)
This is great - we'll put it in the Big Tech Walkout programme for 2026, but in the meantime there the more basic #BigTechWalkout2025 challenge:
https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/the-big-tech-walkout-2025
This seems to work with proton vpn even though many videos around say it doesn't work but they are a year or 2 old now. It takes over the dns portion of Protons "netshield" I am just wondering if it hinders Protons VPN in anyway and should someone just use the provided netsheild. It definitely gives more control over the DNS obviously which is nice.