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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?

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[–] whenever8186@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] whenever8186@lemmy.world 3 points 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

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