Paying does not solve the online ads problem, it only adds to it by creating a market for companies that can profit from online ads while collecting even more data from internet users. DNS query data is probably as close to www browsing history as one can get.
These companies can easily be acquired by Big Tech. Nothing stops them from selling out and selling their customers out. This is a win for the DNS provider, a win for Big Tech and a loss for the internet user.
Google already collects fees from some people who are willing to pay in return for "no ads"; meanwhile Google still collects data on these people; it may be used to support ads shown elsewhere or for any purpose whatsoever. Paying does not stop the online ads problem. If anything it makes online ads even more attractive; they can be used to annoy people into paying fees. Some people will actually pay to have their data collected by an advertising company.
As far as I know, please correct if wrong,, Pi Hole is 100% non-commercial. It is basically a modified dnsmasq with default settings that forward queries to third party DNS providers that profit from ad services, like Google. If online advertising were to decrease or disappear, then Pi Hole is not threatened. Whereas a third party DNS service like NextDNS has a financial incentive to ensure that the online ads problem persists, as it creates their "market". The disapperance of online ads, for whatever reason, would be catastrophic for NextDNS.
I am not a Pi Hole user as I do nmot like dnsmasq. I use other DNS software and map DNS data collected in bulk from variety of sources into local forward proxy memory.
These companies can easily be acquired by Big Tech. Nothing stops them from selling out and selling their customers out. This is a win for the DNS provider, a win for Big Tech and a loss for the internet user.
Google already collects fees from some people who are willing to pay in return for "no ads"; meanwhile Google still collects data on these people; it may be used to support ads shown elsewhere or for any purpose whatsoever. Paying does not stop the online ads problem. If anything it makes online ads even more attractive; they can be used to annoy people into paying fees. Some people will actually pay to have their data collected by an advertising company.
As far as I know, please correct if wrong,, Pi Hole is 100% non-commercial. It is basically a modified dnsmasq with default settings that forward queries to third party DNS providers that profit from ad services, like Google. If online advertising were to decrease or disappear, then Pi Hole is not threatened. Whereas a third party DNS service like NextDNS has a financial incentive to ensure that the online ads problem persists, as it creates their "market". The disapperance of online ads, for whatever reason, would be catastrophic for NextDNS.
I am not a Pi Hole user as I do nmot like dnsmasq. I use other DNS software and map DNS data collected in bulk from variety of sources into local forward proxy memory.