Leaving for Adguard
Greetings. I've been a long time user of NextDNS, and have decided that due to lack of new features, as well as zero feedback on bug reports, that this project is all but dead. I haven't seen any new features in well over a year, and the proxy app for Windows machines is an absolute joke compared to the competition.
I hope the developers are paying attention, b/c they have made a masterclass on how to lose customers: Zero innovation. Adguard is leaps and bounds better, and allows configuring separate DNS servers (NextDNS would call these "configuration profiles" but it's a much weaker concept in NDNS) and has much better reporting. It also supports QUIC, and is the only vendor to do so.
While NextDNS is a quality product, due to lack of new development and zero input on glaring bugs, you've shown you aren't listening to your customers. I can no longer recommend this service in good faith as well. I am a developer of over 20 years, and am baffled as to what work is actually being done on this product. So long.
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NextDNS is one of the best
I agree that Adguard is also great choice
But i still recommend NextDNS
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Just tried to get started with adgaurd profile but it may do something but the interface is not doing what nextdns does, it may looks like it but i can’t see it and the way nextdns is blocking my most viewed websites adguard does not show me the best results and they have limitations too. I’ll stick with nextdns config, it is anyway a personal choice by experience!
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Maybe this helps, if you check your dns settings https://cmdns.dev.dns-oarc.net You see difference in adguard and controld and nextdns
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You don't have to ditch NextDNS if you use AdGuard! I use AdGuard with NextDNS-over-QUIC. Works beautifully although AdGuard occasionally blocks stuff that has been whitelisted! The only thing I'm missing in NextDNS logs is the possibility to see the owner of a network request, i.e. which app initiated a request. It's hard to tell if a request is legit just by glancing at the domain name. I would also wish that disabling NextDNS would fallback on whichever DNS IPs I have setup (e.g. 1.1.1.1 or other).
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We’ve used NextDNS for four years and loved it for the first two-three. Our fourth year of subscription ends in 7 days and we are done with it too. We’re attaching a Raspberry Pi to our network with Adguard Home or Pi-hole installed on it and I find it hard to believe we’ll be looking back. Yeah, there are six or seven services out there like NextDNS out there that are very capable but I don’t want to get burned again. Really, really wish NextDNS had continued being maintained.
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Same here. I have a 15 year licence with adguard for $130, includes their vpn too.
Its just better value, when i started to dig into Nextdns they have way to many different rented servers at fault for so many endless issues.
I left them, found that sweet deal on a vpn and got a killer dns too with it; hard to go wrong.
Even on reddit tons of people are bitching about nextdns.
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Not really sure why people are still using NextDNS tbh when the founders have started dns0.eu and used NextDNS data as part of it according their website. NextDNS is no longer listed on any respected privacy resource.
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Every time I try NextDNS I wind up having issues. Not being able to reach sites then seconds later they become reachable. I submitted a latency report via NextDNS network diagnostic tool.
I had to ditch the Windows installer as it created more problems than it was worth. It would fail connections on a 500/500 fibre wired connection. I hard coded everything.
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Same.
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It is everyone's free choice to choose what you want. In a nutshell; adguard is for people who want an easy solution and nextdns is more for advanced people, yes it can sometimes be complex but that is no problem at all for people who understand the matter. In 90% of all cases of problems it is your own misconfiguration of settings. Important is to first make a good plan for yourself what you want and wish to achieve.
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I'm talking from Brazil and I'm using NextDNS by at least two years and everything works fine here.
Latency is awesome, it's working inside my Mikrotik routing with DoH enabled, man... It's as solid as osmiun.
First time configuration was hard, but with some basic research I was able to figure out how to make it work directly from my home router.
The biggest advantage, sincerely: the price model. Simple as it should be. I pay a small fee, they unlocks everything.
Oh, I love the Hagezi Blocklist and all the other possibilities inside block lists. I have a daughter and I live in peace knowing her is safe in home network.
I'm not an affiliate, just a truly brazilian lover of NextDNS services. -
It's been mentioned that NextDNS is in maintenance mode, which means they keep it working without improving. Also, it's true that there's only so much you can do in a DNS service.
Some people also mentioned that there was some unacknowledged downtime recently (even though I didn't notice).
They do reply here and there on the forum.
DDNS link has been broken for about a month and a half at this point, and they don't reply to these particular reports.
It works, and they have servers in my location so ping is better than some competitor.
I do wish they kept adding features like notes for whitelists and blacklists to keep track of what's added in there. There's an extension for that, but it doesn't sync to the account.
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