Hi all,

I’ve opted to use another VPN provider due to costs, but I want to use Mullvad’s DoH servers to take advantage of their blocklists (and reputation). I think this would make me stand out compared to users of the VPN, but blocking domains would improve my browsing experience and thwarts other non-browser stuff on my devices (OS telemetry and tracking, etc). Is this setting recommended as a matter of privacy/security?

Thanks in advance for any help and discussion.

  • exupulosion@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    18 days ago

    Yeah it will make you stand out. Why not use on-device filtering though? Host blocklist are lacklustre at best, you can’t go without cosmetic filtering now

    • rearview@lemmy.zipOP
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      16 days ago

      What would you say is a good on-device filtering solution? I guess this would require locally MITM the TLS stuff does it?

      Something like uBO for outside the browser would be nice

      • exupulosion@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        16 days ago

        For a PC there’s not much options, ublock for browsers, hosts-based blocklist for global filtering, maybe pi-hole.

        For a smartphone you have rethinkdns, personaldnsfilter and also Firefox with ublock