Telecom Italia locks my DNS server (I cannot change it).

I ended up using PIHole as DHCP, to drive home devices to PIHole, and control my privacy.

The trick is simple: disable DHCP on your router, and activate it on PIHole. As a bonus, PIHole on my RasperryPI2 is way faster than the little chip on my provider Router, and can be patched automatically with unattended upgrades.

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hdgvhicv 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The whole point of ad companies like google pushing DoH is to bypass things like pinhole and take power away from you, the owner, and give it to them, the trillion dollar advertising company.

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someguyornotidk a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And if you can't disable DHCP or set the router in bridge mode, you can just add another router (that you control) between your ISP device and the rest of your network. I've been running this setup for over a decade and didn't run into any noteworthy issues. Leave the ISP-infested router outside your network.

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noselasd a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Note that there are ISPs that actively hijack traffic to UDP port 53 further inside their network and transparently maps that onto their internal DNS servers.

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jachee a day ago | parent [-]

This is why you would want to setup DNS-over-TLS or DNS-over-HTTPS to, say, 1.1.1.1. They can’t hijack DNS traffic that looks like HTTPS traffic.

	▲	cowlevel 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Cloudflare knowing every single DNS resolution is just as bad.

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a-french-anon a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Pretty sure that you can use DHCP and still override the DNS servers with most DHCP clients.

	▲	daitangio a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yes but you need to do it MANUALLY on every client. Using the PIHOLE DHCP automate this and simplify the setup.
	▲	unethical_ban a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I think they're saying that their ISP's router does not allow this, thus the need in their case to use third-party DHCP.