John GruberThe ads in Apple News are both high-class and high-resolution.
Samer Farha@gruber even though I pay for News+, I still see those ads. So now I have pihole, which isn’t really what I want to do with my time.
Don Whiteside@samerfarha I think I’m gonna test out nextdns.io precisely because I don’t want to fuck around with pihole. Also means I don’t need to live without/deal with vpn nonsense when I’m away from home.
@donw let me know what you think!
@donw ok, so I took a look and they have a free tier (300K requests/no sign up required for 7 days), so I’m testing it out. So far, I like everything about it. Has a lot of options for blocking, malware, etc. Works fast. Does profiles for Apple products so you can use it that way, or tie your IP to their service and use it on your router.
One wish: let me choose which country I show up as for different services…
Thanks for the heads up!
@samerfarha Yeah I'm trying it on my phone as well since it's pretty low-risk. Seems good. Might add a profile on my laptop as well. I have some reluctance on making the jump to house-wide since it lacks something I'd have with a pi hole: a simple interface to press a button and bypass when there’s a possible issue. I need to dig further, maybe there's apps or APIs for that.
@donw yeah, I’m just going to use it on my ipad and phone because that’s where I live and see ads. My work laptop has an adblocker, and my personal mac is mostly a headless server.
fedward 
@donw @samerfarha Curious about this. I could set NextDNS as my upstream on my home router but I’m the same about wanting control about whether it’s on or off available directly on the affected device.
@fedward @samerfarha I decided to live dangerously and installed/turned it on in my ubiquity router. It’s easy to toggle it on and off with their cli tool. I may just create another profile and have that use no black lists, then attach that to a different AP name to have a quick way to move most of the devices around.
@fedward @samerfarha Interestingly the blacklists on nextdns I am using seems to include a few that impact email-based stuff. I'm on the fence about whether this bothers me since it's not like I chose to opt out before now. On the other hand I find myself with zero curiosity about what I'm not seeing here.
@samerfarha @donw I switched to using the iCloud privacy thing after years of having remote images turned off, so now I’m just polluting their stats with a proxy run by Apple. No idea if that’s good or bad.