The benefits is that every device is safer and with way less ads but some sites may break so I dont know
ControlD It’s a paid service and not as good from a privacy standpoint as something self-hosted, but it’s effective, easy to set up, reasonably priced ($20/year), and I can use it anywhere.
NextDNS appears to have all the same features BUT it has a full featured free tier with monthly request limit high enough the average person probably won’t hit it, and it’s probably better from a privacy standpoint.
There’s a web dashboard you use to set it up so no apps to install. There’s a bunch of preset blocklists you can pick from and customize. You can also set different white/black lists for different devices.
I’ve only had a few sites break, and when they do I can just open the dashboard and whitelist them. There’s a feature that temporarily shows you all the attempted requests so if something is breaking you can figure out which domain to whitelist.
I wasn’t aware of that. I took a quick look and as far as I can tell the feature set is the same. They’re also endorsed by Mozilla which at least for me proves they’re very legit. I’ve edited my comment to recommend that instead.
My usage is a little higher than the query limit for the free tier but I will probably switch to their paid tier once my current subscription period is up.
Thanks for the recommendation.