I replaced Pi-hole with Unbound for a week, and the privacy upgrade wasn’t the only win
My DNS setup was working perfectly. Pi-hole handled ad blocking, dnscrypt-proxy encrypted DNS traffic, and Quad9 resolved every query my network generated. I had been running this setup for a long time, and I rarely thought about it. Then I started thinking, if DNS filtering and encryption were already in my local stack, why was I letting a third-party resolver see every query my network made? Every lookup was outsourced to someone else’s infrastructure. That simple thought was enough to make me replace the public resolver with a self-hosted one — Unbound. I ran it for a week, expecting better privacy. And at the end of the week, I got a much clearer understanding of what my DNS was actually doing.
My DNS setup was working perfectly. Pi-hole handled ad blocking, dnscrypt-proxy encrypted DNS traffic, and Quad9 resolved every query my network generated. I had been running this setup for a long time, and I rarely thought about it. Then I started thinking, if DNS filtering and encryption were already in my local stack, why was I letting a third-party resolver see every query my network made? Every lookup was outsourced to someone else’s infrastructure. That simple thought was enough to make me replace the public resolver with a self-hosted one — Unbound. I ran it for a week, expecting better privacy. And at the end of the week, I got a much clearer understanding of what my DNS was actually doing.
Hilda Robledo
Mexico
Mexico
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