Couldn't agree more. It is also probably the best bang for your buck in terms of changes you can make to improve privacy.
My issue is that neither of those solutions provide sufficient anonymity. At the end of the day, all that is being done is transferring ownership of your DNS query data to someone else.
Use DNS-over-TLS-over-TOR
https://github.com/piskyscan/dns_over_tls_over_tor
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Absolutely, but your talking about a completely different threat model. AdGuard Home and NextDNS solve a different problem. They aren’t anonymity tools. They’re privacy and control tools.
DNS over TLS over Tor is the right move when the threat model requires anonymity from the resolver itself. That’s a different job than what AdGuard Home or NextDNS are doing.
And Tor doesn’t replace DNS filtering. Almost nobody wants their entire network pinned through Tor.
Tor is powerful, but most home setups won’t tolerate the latency or fragility. It’s best as an additional lane, not a replacement. Different tools, different jobs, different threat models.