Latency isn't the important measurement — it's the actual time to resolve. This will be significantly longer than the ping latency.
Unbound, recommended for use with Pi-hole, can be configured to log this by enabling "log-replies" in unbound.conf⁽¹⁾ where the time to resolve will be logged in seconds.
my biggest gripe with NextDNS is not having an ability to add custom blocklists. I'd gladly pay for it even if there was a paid tier with this feature.
I'm aware of adding domains one by one, but I want to add some lists like Hagezi Threat Intelligence Feed which is not available in the blocklists, and these blocklists have >500k domain list.
I'm currently using Blocky as my DNS resolver. It works fine and is super fast because of the fine control over caching, but I'm disappointed with its memory footprint. 400MB for a total blocklist of 1.3M domains
I'm currently seeing 12ms latency to my upstream NextDNS server. On my home network I "proxy" it with a forwarding/caching DNS server on my router, so for "the usual suspects", latency is not an issue.
On the go, over 5G, those 12ms won't make much of a difference.
Considering that people deploy PiHole on Raspberry Pi W models, over wifi, you won't lose much running NextDNS, but you gain dns blacklisting on all networks, as opposed to just your home network (or via VPN)
I'm not sure how that could be. Even if it's your first ever request to the host, the latency is a one time thing and then it's cached. Even an extra 100ms for DNS latency is going to be unnoticeable compared to an empty browser cache and having to download a bunch of images
This is a bit of an understatement. Germans are both actively hostile to changing processes, and eager to add layers of process to every imaginable thing.
The result is a growing bureaucracy with no matching effort in efficiency or digitalisation.
> - The "unsubscribe" button in Indeed's job notification emails leads me to an impassable Cloudflare challenge.
Maybe indeed could be held liable here? From the can spam act (if you're from the US):
> You can’t charge a fee, require the recipient to give you any personally identifying information beyond an email address, or make the recipient take any step other than sending a reply email or visiting a single page on an Internet website as a condition for honoring an opt-out request.
this nevertheless happens all the time. i have an old linkedin account i haven't logged into in years and can't be bothered to dig up the credentials so one of my e-mails gets stupid "network updates". one must log in to disable these and navigate to some obscure settings page in one of the most heinously overcrowded UIs on the web.
so i just flagged it all as spam and hoped it hurts their deliverability a little.
Honestly I click an unsubscribe link but if it requires me to complete a survey or fill out a form, I just nix the tab and spam filter the email. I'm nobody's fucking admin assistant and my time is valuable: you know my fucking email and could easily add it to the think, or at the most, ask me to type it into a box if you MUST. Anything more than that, if I have to manually opt out of "types" of messages or whatever, nah. Fuck you.
I didn't ask for your fucking emails and I sure as shit am not going to do the homework you're assigning me to make them stop.
If the survey has text fields and I have enough spite left in me I fill them with "[object Object]" in the hopes it makes someones day more miserable than mine.
Yep, I just spam filter the E-mails now. If that act adds 0.0001% to that sender having future E-mail deliverability problems, then all the better. If it's commercial or political and I didn't explicitly ask for the sender to E-mail, then it's spam.
Other formatters of course since the configs are often yaml, toml, ini or json.
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