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The one thing Cloudflare DNS is missing is providing something like NextDNS.

Choose your own filter lists (that are constantly updated), create multiple profiles to use according to the target device/location and enjoy as blocking at the DNS level. It’s not a complete match for something like uBlock Origin, but a lot of stuff still gets blocked with DNS filters.

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Have you checked out Cloudflare Gateway? We used that to do DNS filtering on some iPads we deployed

Thanks for pointing that out. I hadn't known about Cloudflare Gateway and am exploring at now. Preliminary thoughts: it seems a lot more complex than configuring and setting up NextDNS. Had a look at setting up policies, and it doesn't seem to support adding ad-blocking lists (like the ones used in uBlock Origin) easily. In NextDNS these are just checkboxes for each filter list.

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