Actually i mean, is anyone here only using dns services like controld, Nextdns, Adguard, etc. just because they show the blocked queries even though you know these dns blockers doesn’t do much more than blocking ads + malicious domains (unreliable) and provide parental controls ?
Just a doubt how blocked domains count provide a sense of protection when actually it is really just an illusion. (I believe when trackers are cookies, it is impossible to count them all and modern website have even more trackers than these dns blockers can detect and block).
Also in whotracksme you can see how much trackers in a website when visiting that website you can’t see that much connection blocked or even detected.
What are your opinions ? Is this all wrong and the blocked queries actually matter and accurate ?
I don’t watch them obsessively, but once or twice a month I’ll take a look to see if there’s been any errors pop up (sometimes lists go dead) and everytime I’m floored by the %s. Just looked and 74.4% of all my dns queries are blocked. 3x the number of legitimate requests are blocked. Feels like just a few years ago it was closer to 50%. Makes me wonder how much worse things will get.
I don’t care what the number is as long as ads and tracking are blocked.
That’s not really an addiction. More of a neurosis, or possibly an obsession.
The number is just that, the number of blocked connections. Don’t read too much into it.
FWIW, I use dns blockers but don’t check the numbers
