Swedish IPTV Crackdown Tested as Users Seek Workarounds * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)

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[-] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 3 points 3 months ago

I’ve used Unbound for years but recently had to switch to Blocky for some weird reason. It turned out to be way, way faster than Unbound.

As a bonus, blocking thousands of advertising and tracking domains is much easier with Blocky (if you’re into that).

[-] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I’ve used Unbound for years but recently had to switch to Blocky for some weird reason.

Blocky doesn’t appear to be a Recursive DNS resolver? It seems to still rely on upstream providers whereas Unbound directly communicates with the root distributors for the domains you lookup.

[-] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 2 points 3 months ago

Great point. I always forget that because I would never want to query without encryption.

[-] baxster@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

Thanks for the tip! I use pihole and been using it for years so the blocking part is already taken care of😊

[-] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 2 points 3 months ago

I think PiHole is using Unbound behind the scenes. What I like about Blocky is not only does the performance to be much, much more solid using an upstream resolver with high latency (VPN exiting in another country), it automatically refreshes the denylists (something I think PiHole has to do in a more roundabout way).