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Comment by rshurts | Hacker News Reader

While anyone technical can easily get around DNS filter it is a nice option for helping prevent accidental exposure to pornography.

I'm looking forward to when the customization options are available as an alternative/addition to OpenDNS. The morality police argument doesn't seem to hold much water if they are going to let you whitelist or blacklist anything you want or turn categories on or off.

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I can imagine some impatient parents will start black listing Kidz Bop videos or anything else that bothers them. It will also lead to some very creative punishments. Like blocking online gaming.

some work without dns though!

battle.net comes to mind... that always connected, even if my providers DNS failed.

Have you used https://nextdns.io/ ?

No. But I'll have to check it out. Do you use it and the mobile apps?

Do you have problems with connecting to public wifi when running the app? I've noticed setting the DNS locally on a computer throws off the local library wifi that has the captive page that makes you agree to terms before proceeding.

On Android I set it as custom DoH. Have not used the app. Unfortunately, as with all DNS based blocking, you run into random pages that dont resolve, and need to turn it off. Due to the infinitely many knobs, I dont know which list is blocking it from the error page, just that the page cant be founbd.

Yesterday it was http://www.futureus.com/

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