You don't have to do that... NextDNS ultimately uses Cloudflare DNS under the hood, so just point yourself at 1.1.1.1 and you're done but it will block nothing.
If you want a DNS server to block things, know that the definition of what to block is subjective and some people may disagree with what you want to block.
For that reason you get an account, which allows you to have a configure, and that needs to be resolve to you... so at some level an identifier of the configuration is needed. This is the id.
AstraZeneca is probably more dangerous than covid for the younger, healthy, population, while still being a good risk/reward tradeoff for the elderly.
But we figured that out by collecting statistics. Not by publishing anecdotes.
And as for the comment you're replying to:
> The most important vaccine statistic is the ( I think still current) 0 deaths in the vaccinated groups.
If the "official" stats show 0 deaths after vaccination, be very suspicious! People die all the time, roughly 1% of the population per year. If you vaccinate a non-trivial number of people, some will die by coincidence anyway. If those coincidental deaths aren't being reported, you're going to have a much harder time making sure they are in fact just the expected number of coincidences.
MS-DOS cornered the desktop market around 1981. It remained the dominant desktop OS, despite being an utter piece of crap OS and technologically obsolete even at the moment it was introduced, until around 1990, when it was overtaken by products from the same company, Windows 3.1 and later Windows 95.
Windows 95 then took over in... 1995 :-) Windows is still the dominant desktop platform in 2021, and it will probably be for at least 1 more decade.
Linux took over server environments around 2005, I think, and its still dominating in 2021. It will probably dominate for many decades more.
Smartphone OSes are in the same place. Smartphones have matured, they're primarily slabs of glass/metal/plastic. You either get Android or you switch both hardware AND software and get iOS.
Android is almost free for manufacturers and customers, so it's even worse than Windows. How is it ever going to be displaced? Keep in mind that not even beauties such as Windows Me, Windows Vista, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 made much of a negative dent in the Windows marketshare.
Sorry, but in what concerns Europe, the desktop market was split across boring PCs with MS-DOS, Atari and Amigas, and in 1986 the option was still between ZX Spectrum and Commodore descendants, with most people migrating to 16 bit desktop systems around 1990.
In 1988, our computer club at the school just had a couple of newly bought Amstrad PC1512, where I got to play Defender of the Crown, with students having turns at the keyboard.
It'll cause some churn, and a lot of Google stuff will die, but it needs to happen.
Strangling the revenue pipe, while owning most platforms to ensure most people are forced through said pipe, is harmful to the greater internet ecosystem.
Google does amazing, great things. But they're funding them by dumping toxic waste out the backdoor.
Indeed. But suggesting to break Google apart nets in -4 karma on HN. smh.
Let's not even start with all the evil they've been doing in the recent years since Pichai Sundararajan took over.
Google has too much concentrated power and it is a monopoly.
Search + Ads alone, a browser, a DNS network, an OS, cars, cloud. It's just the tip of the iceberg.
And it's using its influence exclusively for their own advantage and to crush people who oppose them.
How do you use a non-Google oidc idp though?
That's the main thing keeping me away from it.
You have the non-choice of using Google Auth or include the token in every request outside of credentials
You can construct credentials from any ID token, it ends up as a standard Authorization: Bearer header on each RPC. I believe this is the case for Google Auth too.
