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Proton Mail is the world's largest secure email provider. Swiss, end-to-end encrypted, private, and free.
Proton VPN is the worldβs only open-source, publicly audited, unlimited and free VPN. Swiss-based, no-ads, and no-logs.
Proton Calendar is the world's first end-to-end encrypted calendar that allows you to keep your life private.
Proton Drive is a free end-to-end encrypted cloud storage that allows you to securely backup and share your files. It's open source, publicly audited, and Swiss-based.
Proton Pass Proton Pass is a free and open-source password manager which brings a higher level of security with rigorous end-to-end encryption of all data (including usernames, URLs, notes, and more) and email alias support.
SimpleLogin lets you send and receive emails anonymously via easily-generated unique email aliases.
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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:
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.
@Nelizea Thank you, and fantastic tool!
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
I also do this. On Mac and Android at least. Awesome.