This is a secure dns and adblocker that has evolved into a great privacy app. Yesterday i noticed it has added support for Wireguard and TOR as well as proxy. The app comes with a customizable firewall. It means you can have secure dns combined with vpn/proxy and firewall in one app.

P.S: I’m not the developer.

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    If we want to have the bigger picture we’ll also need to read this about rethinkDns :

    Is this a free service?
    
    On-device firewall is free. The in-the-cloud Rethink DNS content-blocking resolver has both free (public beta) and paid tiers (private beta). Currently, pricing isn't implemented and so the private beta is essentially also free till then.
    

    From faq : https://rethinkdns.com/faq Not here about arguing, people need to eat and live under a roof ofc, even in foss communities, but I think people need to know about it before installing & be dependant to its (for the moment free) features.

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      Why would you want in-the-cloud DNS content blocking? You’re pretty much passing your browsing history to a private company.

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        With Android’s private DNS feature it makes it easy to get some form of system-wide ad blocking without needing to rely on an app or have root. I think that would make it fairly popular. Of course this is an app but the root argument still applies.

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          But what’s the advantage of doing it with some private companies server instead of on-device? Why share your browsing history with them, when alternatives exist that don’t require it?

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        With RethinkDNS you can use either on device or cloud blocklists.

        Edit: cloud blocklists can be used with or without the app. The app adds useful things like a firewall, logging, wireguard support, etc.

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      I’m using the in device DNA filtering for a long time since I’m using non rethinkDNS DNS (DNSCRYPT), and it works great, and completely free forever.

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        Because if at some point one of its features you use are going from from free to paid, & then you have no money for this (as too poor for it, or the will/ethic to pay, etc) while there are no free forks/alternatives for the service : you have a problem. Not everybody is as good users as us using iptables or wireguard, finding different alternative may be hard to understand for others. For example, as I’m not a good developper : I personnally feel dependant to a lot of foss apps & choices they make. If the matter here is related to privacy, I think it’s important to know that you may pay at some point for it.