Does anyone know of good alternatives that also block ads? Seems Quad9 doesn't.

NextDNS https://nextdns.io/

Been using them for years. The price is reasonable too. It’s the only way I found to block ads everywhere on iOS (except the YT app, Mullvad’s Albania wireguard did that)

The price is so reasonable, I think the risk is that you’re paying mainly with your data?

I have a router with adguard on it so I can locally filter everything.

Sometimes you need to unblock things to ensure something works properly, so having it be local is better in my opinion.

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/releases

Trivial to self-host, and gives you full control of blocking.

nextdns.io might be an option

https://adguard-dns.io/kb/general/dns-providers/ have a list of options that some of them have ad blocker

I'm using numa(https://github.com/razvandimescu/numa) for ad filtering and odoh mode for privacy (shameless plug)

So this is something to use instead of pihole?

Several (European) alternatives are available: https://eualternative.eu/categories/public-dns/

dot.sb

dns.adguard-dns.com

What about Cloudflare’s public DNS? https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/setup/#1111-for-fa...

  1.1.1.2
  1.0.0.2
  2606:4700:4700::1112
  2606:4700:4700::1002

Cloudflare DNS does not block ads, it only blocks malware