In relation to privacy, I remember reading that Quad9 is a good DNS provider and that Cloudflare although in theory is the fastest DNS provider has basically alone the majority of the DNS market, which is obviously a bad idea.
I also remember that recently Quad9 was fighting in court a case where a government wanted to block certain IP pirate pages but blaming Quad9 for “facilitating” them.
I know that both Quad9 and Cloudflare are recommended on PrivacyGuides but I wanted to read some opinions on that.
I’m a big fan of NextDNS. It provides lots of customizability. It’s like a cloud based pihole.
NextDNS is great and I use it on my phone, but I find it a bit unnecessary to pay for it… I have nothing against it and I would do it if I could, but 90% of the features are unnecessary for me, I have no reason to block specific IPs or domains or use parental controls, and if I wanted to block ads I have uBlock Origin, and I think 300,000 queries per month for a PC is too little…
I agree. Quad9 is a better choice in that case.
I second NextDNS. Been using it for months now too and am very happy with it. Very fast DNS servers and I love that you have so much control over (un-)blocked domains. Absolutely worth the 2€ for a month. Especially with NX Enhanced it’s even more convenient.