I know you can get good results with NextDNS, but lately I haven’t been a fan of subscriptions and those free trials. I’d like to find something similar, or even better
Privacy Guides is a good resources for this.
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/dns/
NextDNS has a free tier. Are you at risk of going over 300,000 queries per month limit? That’s quite a bit for home users.
Even then it still functions as a DNS without blocking.
Mullvad dns.
DNS0.eu is the new thing. Maybe also Control D Free DNS, Alternate DNS or if you want to go more hardcore LibreDNS. To be fair your biggest concern shouldn’t be only where you get your DNS from BUT also if it supports DoT and DoH - encrypting the DNS is more important for a lot people than actually using something other than Cloudflare or some other big company.
I use controld.com p2 dns over tls which kills known malware, tracking, and ads. I have it set up as a standard DNS provider on my home network so that everybody uses it and it works great.
dns.adguard.com But know that some sites will not operate with it enabled.
Adguard is a very large data mining operation. You’ll eventually figure that out.
Proton has a free tier and it’s one of the more reputable VPN providers out there.
That’s a VPN, but the OP is asking for a DNS.
