Hey guys, I recently bought an orange pi zero 2 and, as the title suggests, I want to put an ad blocker on it. Those are the options. I also will put openvpn for external connection to my network. Does anyone have experience with them? What would you suggest?

  • whenever8186@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I also started on pihole, but switched to Blocky because Blocky is way more DevOps friendly (I run this stuff on microk8s on a Pi cluster).

    Then I just ditched it altogether and now use NextDNS. Well worth paying the small fee for. But you obviously don’t get the same DIY satisfaction out of it.

    • knoland@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      But NextDNS is closed source isn’t it? Personally I wouldn’t trust proprietary software with my entire DNS request history.

      • whenever8186@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Well it’s a service I’m paying for, so yes a bit of trust is required. Their privacy policy looks decent as well. As it stands, I trust them more with it than I would my ISP, Google or Microsoft.

        You can choose what region to log to (I chose Switzerland) and you can also configure the retention period.

        https://nextdns.io/privacy