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Hey [@protonmail](https://mastodon.social/@protonmail) [@protonprivacy](https://lemmy.world/c/protonprivacy) !

First, thanks a lot for your responsiveness. It feels great to keep in touch with my favourite service providers 😁

I'm a Mail Plus user, considering Unlimited, to use VPN. Given the "conflict" with DNS settings when switching on a VPN, how do you see your ad-blockkbg capabilities versus, for example, #nextdns ?

I believe #nextdns might be more configurable, but overall protection level is probably equal to the one of #protonVPN ?

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Nelizea

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For an out of the box system, Netshield works good indeed. If you want more customization and better granular control, you can achieve more with NextDNS. Out of the box, NextDNS is empty and you'll have to choose for yourself what you're blocking. Thus out of the box, Netshield is better. Once you're having a proper NextDNS config, you're likely to block a little more with NextDNS, based on personal experience.

You can check or benchmark the blocking as example here: https://d3ward.github.io/toolz/adblock.html

For that reason, personally I am using NextDNS.

Disclaimer:

This is not officially endorsed by Proton VPN.
Use at your own risk (like with any custom DNS)
This will leak DNS requests on purpose outside of the Proton VPN Tunnel to NextDNS, with DoH enabled, for the purpose of a better customization of DNS blocking.

tl;dr: For a normal user, Netshield is good enough. For more technical user needing a better granular control, NextDNS bight be better. Read the disclaimer.

gaufff

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@Nelizea Thank you, and fantastic tool!

Nelizea

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You are welcome. By the way, I posted a guide here for Proton VPN & NextDNS on iOS / ipadOS / macOS:

https://lemmy.world/post/4065911?scrollToComments=true

For Android it is simpler, as you don't need the whole configuration profile and adaptation of config part:

Download the WireGuard App from the Play Store / Aurora / WireGuard homepage+ download the WireGuard config from https://account.protonvpn.com
Import the config and enable the tunnel into the WireGuard app
Set the private DNS in the Android Network settings to the *DNS-over-TLS/QUIC" Address you can find at https://my.nextdns.io -> Setup

alex_herrero

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I also do this. On Mac and Android at least. Awesome.

helenslunch

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They don't usually reply here

Nelizea

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The beauty of federation is that the official Proton Mastodon account was tagged and throughr Mastadon they could directly answer into the thread here :-)