Best practice is to host 2 PiHole instances, if 1 DNS sinkhole fails you can fallback to another one (Primary & Secondary DNS Server) that way you don’t lose internet access.
Certainly read and try to interpret the documents as best as you can, I suggest going the Docker Compose route for hosting as it’s quite straight forward and a great tool to learn if you want to selfhost other software, fiddle around with 1 DNS sinkhole before you jump head first into getting the second one up though.
What is everyones preferred solution?
How is this even possible? I thought Youtube and Reddit ads are impossible to block via a DNS filter.
Perhaps proxying through Invidious and or Redlib instances? Given that a Redlib and Invidious URL’s follow the same paths as Reddit & YouTube it’s not hard to replace https://reddit.com/r/SomeSubreddit with https://lib.nextdns.tld/r/SomeSubreddit or https://youtube.com/watch?v=SomeVideoID with https://inv.nextdns.tld/watch?v=SomeVideoID
I can’t say if the servers themselves reside on US soil but the companies office certainly do, while I admit I was hesitant to give them my money I got tired of being rate limited by Bing/DDG/Startpage on my SearXNG instance, even though I don’t make many requests they do not like aggregator engines, and I sure as hell didn’t want want my server touching Google servers regularly.
Settled with the least worst option available I’d say.
I switched and never looked back nearly 5 years ago.
Bought my own domain shortly afterwards and with Proton Pass I can generate unique emails per website using that domain, you don’t need a domain as you can use protons domains but it’s nice to have your own, can also easily disable problematic emails that cause spam.
I pay per search using their APi and my SearXNG instance, it’s like ¢0.03 per search which I capped to $5 a month, we’re currently on the 23rd of October and I owe them a whopping $2.03, I usually don’t hit that $5 limit.
I only wish they weren’t an American company.
Ah I mistakenly thought it was PIA (Private Internet Access), apologies, but it’s also worth noting Privacy.com is also yet another American company.
it will probably let you use a service like Privacy.com
Shocked I say! American VPN company in cahoots with other big tech companies!
Pro-tip, never get a VPN in a FVEY country.
Isn’t the CIA international whereas the FBI is national?
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=cM_l-T1N5rE