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I started blocking Meta with NextDNS. Zuck is a creepy piece of shit who belongs in prison. If you want to resolve his domains it’s not happening on my networks or devices ever again.
i really wanted to do the same but without blocking whatsapp 🥲 unfortunately I have to use whatsapp … is there any list out there that blocks just Meta’s tracking without necessarily blocking something like whatsapp ?
Not that I’ve seen but I think you should be able to use the allowlist to let it through.
yeah that seems to be the only way, unfortunately. i do wonder for how long that will work, considering Meta wants to tie in Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp even more. idk, I’m not really tech savvy haha
I feel it’s all or nothing though
Why do you have to use whatsapp, let alone, anything? Do you not have free will?
Maybe you want to, or even have to talk to people who don’t use fedi apps.
Did you set it up on your router level? I thought I’d have to set it up device by device
PiHole and AdGuard are both easy to setup servers for network wide DNS blocking. (Homenetworking)
NextDNS is an external entity that allows you to setup DNS blocking on devices that support DoT, DoH, and occasionally plaintext DNS. (For your phone and other mobile devices)
iPhones and Androids both support DoT while Firefox (and likely most modern browsers) supports DoH.
If you don’t want to rely on an external entity, you could use a wire guard split tunnel to block your ads away from your home network. Additionally you can set up a VPS and self host your DNS server there.
If you can block all DNS traffic on you router, you can them redirect it to your own DNS server.
And PiHole seems to be the one many people use for that. Lots of guides for it, pre-made list on what to block etc.
Not the person you asked, but also a nextdns user: I have a light (in terms of blocking) profile on my router (set up via a DoH address, but DoT and traditional DNS are also possible). Then I have a much more strict profile I use just for my phone and laptop with more serious blocking, including porn filters (recovering addict). I set these up per-device, but later I learned I can do it in Tailscale (which I did).