Okay, so I’m using DDG as my default browser. When I have tracker blocking enabled, it reports thousands of tracking attempts during the course of the day, even though I’m using nextdns as my private DNS.
However, if I enable ProtonVPN+, it’s a paid account, which has NetShield turned on, it disables DDG, of course… The question I have is, ProtonVPN never shows any ads or trackers stopped, so:
Does this mean that there’s a lot of overlap between what ProtonVPN stops and what nextdns stops?
I may post this to ProtonVPN also; however, I’ve noticed that a lot of you guys know quite a lot about these issues. Thanks in advance for your replies.
Most VPNs use DNS based filtering, so if you have NextDNS enabled your DNS queries will not be filtered by Proton.
This is what I posted on the ProtonVPN sub:
ProtonVPN+ is not blocking any trackers. I’m using nextdns on my Android.
Whenever I check for trackers and ads blocked, there is no activity. None. Zilch. However, this can’t be right, because when I enable DuckDuckGo tracker blocking, thousands of tracking attempts are blocked every single day.
Before DDG had tracker blocking, I used ProtonVPN’s NetShield as my defense against tracking, and was pretty impressed. As they say, “Ignorance is bliss”.
This is extremely disturbing. Any comments on this blocking feature?
I think you have to work according to your threat model, is it big tech companies with their tracking? Then use DDG tracking protection. Is it bypassing geo-blocks or masking your IP address so as not to be targeted by personalized ads? Then use a VPN
Wow. That makes a ton of sense! Thank you.