Sorry if this is a dumb question, but how important is using one of the encrypted DNS services from the megathread? I’ve just been using Google’s DNS servers directly on my router, and have yet to have any issues. Have I just been lucky?

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  • Difficult_Bit_1339
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    1 year ago

    You use a local DNS resolver that can handle encrypted DNS and also does ad blocking. pihole-ftl is what I’ve been using. Then you just set your DHCP server (your router usually) to provide the pihole server as the DNS server.

    It caches entries so things you access often will resolve faster than anything you can get online, it supports all of the privacy options you could want and it also has ad blocking lists so you can block ads and trackers at the DNS level.