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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Google has a VPN service now (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by paraphrand@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] SteveTech@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you've got some free time and a spare computer, pihole with recursive DNS, it blocks ads and queries the root DNS servers itself (requires some extra set up though).

Other services like Quad9 are good for networks other than your home though.

[–] tuff_wizard@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I have a first get raspberry pi sitting around somewhere that needs a job, this may well be the sol. Thanks.