[Etheryte]

I'm also using NextDNS and one thing that's a huge boon for me is that the default free tier covers my use case insanely well. Given the statistics for the last 3 months I seem to consistently fly under the free tier limit but if I ever do hit it, it will just default back to a regular DNS. A very user-friendly approach and I hope they keep it as they grow.

[rsyring]

The other option would be to pay them. :) It's great service and pretty inexpensive, why not support them?

[symfoniq]

Agreed. They couldn't take my $20 fast enough. Such a great service.

[pizzazzaro]

Not gonna claim to know the situation of the folks you're replying to. And Im not gonna pretend these organizations operate for free - if you can reasonably afford it? Supporting them is a great patriotism / praxis / etc for internet denizens.

But I will say this - advertising and tracking has a long, storied history of being a malware infection route. The great boon for all of us from a free-tier DNS-filter service is the additional layer of virus and information protection.

Protecting each other, even inexperienced, or low-budget users? Is the best thing we can do to slow the propagation of malware and institutional information leeches. This in turn protects even the servers of potentially ill-informed or budget-constricted server admins.

We are dealing with internet epidemiology. Free-tier "covid masks" / DNS filters preserve more health than simply for the users actively participating. We have to be in this together, or we will watch each other sink.

Thank you for your time, and sorry for the longwinded Lefty- "Dwight Schrute"-ing. But this entire disclaimer felt necessary to me.