NextDNS user for over 2 years. Looking at 30 day trial for controlD.

I want to check reliability and features as Nextdns has been faultless. It’s been great since I started 2 years ago. But my only concern is we haven’t got new features. And want to check if there’s anything else that’s better worth the money.

I use NextDNS for extra protection and content filtering for family and rarely ever need to do anything. All the sites I want blocked are blocked. And I don’t want anyone to click a bad link or at least that easily. Just extra protection and some ad blocking.

I have recently saw many posts about controld. They have doh3 (DNS over HTTPS3) which is suppose to be quicker and more efficient than doh. And also want to see ping and latency as most people comment that nextDNS is better. And I agree I have never had issues.

ControlD also has the hagezi TIF feed. Along with their own AI learning and TIF feed. You can set it to strict to relax. I am hoping it’s similar if not better than NextDNS.

If it passes all the tests, I might consider moving away from NextDNS. The price is £2 a month. They have another version for £4 a month if you want to switch your location to another place but that’s not something I need or want.

I will attempt to do the CLI version on my Unifi network.