I think teens do it to feel edgy.

I’m not saying that’s the ONLY reason they do it, but they hear about it and see others doing it and it’s a case of monkey see, monkey do.

Who is ‘him’? When I click the link it goes to Twitter and asks me to log in. I can’t tell who you are taking about.

Lol this is the best answer

“Researchers, platforms, advertisers, government agencies, or other institutions interested in accessing the full list of domains or want details about our services for generative AI companies can contact us here”

I thought I was going crazy because I couldn’t find this list of websites. Fat lot of good this article is.

Well it’s a service I’m paying for, so yes a bit of trust is required. Their privacy policy looks decent as well. As it stands, I trust them more with it than I would my ISP, Google or Microsoft.

You can choose what region to log to (I chose Switzerland) and you can also configure the retention period.

https://nextdns.io/privacy

I also started on pihole, but switched to Blocky because Blocky is way more DevOps friendly (I run this stuff on microk8s on a Pi cluster).

Then I just ditched it altogether and now use NextDNS. Well worth paying the small fee for. But you obviously don’t get the same DIY satisfaction out of it.