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.
It is pretty good! I use it and it does its job well and has pretty good privacy policies.
I used to use Quad9 before moving to NextDNS for more control, but it’s a good choice and easy choice in comparison to Cloudflare.
Some people have issue with Quad9 due to their indirect connection to the UK police. Their transparency report.
The only URLs they block are malicious domains associated with phishing, malware, vulnerability exploit, or fraud per their Data and Privacy policy.
I’m a big fan of NextDNS. It provides lots of customizability. It’s like a cloud based pihole.
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.
You also have the option to install your own dns resolver. I use unbound for example.
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I run a PiHole and have Quad9 as the upstream resolver instead of the ISP. That was pretty simple to setup as well. You can also do DNS-over-HTTPs and other options as well for content filtering to block malware and items of DNS upstream.
