I try to use “private DNS” option in my phone’s settings, but it often does not work, and therefore privacy cannot be protected all the time. Sometimes I just cannot even ping other servers by IP (like 1.1.1.1) because of it. My question is: WHY this function requires hostname (so you need to query some other plain text DNS before reaching encrypted DNS)? Also if I understand well, it uses DNS over TLS, but I’m curious why not DNS over HTTPS (which seems like a reliable solution since I have it configured in my browser and there is never a problem with it…also it uses IP address instead of hostname). Why no one is seeing this problem and no one wants to address it? I tried downloading Quad9 app, but it does not work either (I guess some IPS is filtering TLS requests in my network, but again why DOH is not used then?).

  • JayGray91@piefed.social
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    3 days ago

    Good point. I’ll try invizible.

    I chose NextDNS when Android supports custom DNS. And dont wamt to run a “VPN” all the time. It just works for my threat model.

    Found out about it from Tech Lore. Customizing the filters just felt natural since that’s what I do with ublock anyways

    PIA I use for torrenting as well so I don’t think I’ll ever stop that subscription