The ULTIMATE Guide to Mastering NextDNS!

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Source: https://youtu.be/WUG57ynLb8I

Thank you for mentioning my NextDNS guide, @henry-fisher. Seeing the video on my feed made my week 🥹

Your video guide is great! I wanted to add a few notes that you may not be aware of:

• 13:30 NextDNS recently internalized many of their lists. However, I have footnotes beside each category that links to the NextDNS Github repository where hosts their entries or blocklists. Where a category has been internalized, I provide the an older commit showing the list(s)/domains that were used.
• 14:46 Allow Affiliate & Tracking Links: For whatever reason, NextDNS is overly strict when this is disabled and breaks opening some email links. (I know from a security perspective that we shouldn't click email links, but the guide is for folks who don't want to deal with many inconveniences.) So it goes beyond Affiliate links.
• 19:33 As recently as the end of May 2023, I did a lengthier analysis of the Hagezi lists and why Light is now recommended for most users.
• 21:10 Unlike adding more filters to ad blockers and HOST files, enabling more settings / blocklists to NextDNS does NOT affect speed for the end user. This is addressed in FAQ.
• 38:39 I have a few of your videos referenced. I wonder if you can find them all 🤣

TechLore Forum:

• Question about iCloud Private Relay: I address that here; you have to disable the Block Page.

[henry-fisher]

Thanks for this! I'll paste this comment in the description + pinned comment so people can easily find it on YouTube. I just got back to the forum with your comment so they can see the iCloud Private Relay note 👌 Thanks for the kind words and thanks for the great guide!