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In principle this is a good service, but in practice why would one trust a closed source third party if privacy and content blocking is a major concern?

A pfSense machine with pfBlockerNG is open source, fully customizable, and can block at the DNS and IP level.

Since blocking content effectively changes how the web looks, and can occasionally break web sites, I'd rather have full control over the service than to pay someone to configure it for me.

Plus, the BSD camp has yet to let me down. :)




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