Deploying NextDNS Router-Side to Strip Ads From Video Discovery Traffic
The article discusses the author's experience with deploying NextDNS on a router to improve ad-blocking for video discovery traffic. After replacing Pi-hole with NextDNS, the author reports faster performance and fewer ads on their home network. The article also highlights the advantages of router-level DNS over per-device blocking solutions.
- ▪The author initially used Pi-hole but switched to NextDNS for better performance.
- ▪NextDNS allows for centralized configuration across multiple devices and networks.
- ▪The author built a custom denylist to filter out ad and tracking domains from their video discovery traffic.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3801199) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } ahmet gedik Posted on May 27 Deploying NextDNS Router-Side to Strip Ads From Video Discovery Traffic #nextdns #dns #networking #privacy Last Tuesday my multi-region cron job finished its 4 AM pull and the logs lit up with 47 timeouts against streaming-platform metadata endpoints. Curl from my workstation worked fine. Curl from the same VLAN as the cron host hung.
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