Any recommended guides for NextDNS?

Hi all just wishing to seek advice.
After rewatching Henry’s video on NextDNS I thought I would give it a go and I am loving the control that NextDNS gives you.

I am wanting to know if there’s any guides that any NextDNS users use or have used to further block telemetry and how to get the most out of the service?
I have looked at the guide referenced by Henry in the video and found some further iOS telemetry to block but wonder if there’s anything more I can be doing?

On desktop, yes, I agree as we have extension support but on mobile, I partially agree. In Brave, we have a built-in ad/tracker blocker and for Firefox, we can install UBO but on browsers like Mulch/Vanadium, we don’t have that extension support and the users who use these will have to use DNS-based ad/tracker blocking.

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Love that linked guide, @cwsoel . Very helpful. Thanks.

Sorry for not immediately replying.

@anon14374477 that’s sounds like a great idea. I’ve seen recently that on iOS it does allow you to see what domains your apps have connected to via the privacy report.
Which is helpful on a busy network.

A further question if you don’t mind me asking is there a way to identify unnamed domains? For instance as I check the aforementioned privacy report I see some domain names are just listed as ::ffff:24.221.78.26
That’s just a randomly typed example.
But whatever this connects to I can not put it in the deny list, as it’s not actually the domain name.

@rollsicecream I agree. Any computer I use even work ones I also try and stick ublock on.
It’s more the telemetry I’m trying to target that doesn’t need to go out phoning home.

@cwsoel Yeah that’s the guide Henry used, was quite useful had some extra iOS telemetry that didn’t seemed to be cover by the standard blocking by NextDNS.

Thanks all for your comments :blush::+1:t2:

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