Hi there,
So just watched latest video of Jim Browning and in the video he had a sponsor I had not heard about before, Guard.io. So I went to check it out, and it seems like a fairly decent service (by that I mean, a service I would put on family members devices) for helping against possible phishing attempt and general safeguarding online activity etc… I currently have installed Ublock Origin in their browsers and pointed their DNS to base.dns.mullvad.net, but that’s about it.
So:
- Anyone had any experience with this service?
- What’s the general consensus around this service?
- Is it necessary, compared to the measures I mentioned above?
- Are there any other general measure I could implement on their devices? (they are on both apple and Android ecosystems)
Thanks for any suggestions 🌻
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Just use NextDNS and PiHole/AdGuardHome and redirect all port 53 requests to your local DNS instance.
DoT and DoH will mitigate some phishing risks.
Social engineering is the biggest threat, especially through vishing.
I personally use nextDNS, and love it. However my setup is too strict for their use cases and blocks newspapers and stuff they read. I also don’t feel comfortable logging their devices. I guess I could spin up a few more nextDNS accounts for them on the free plan instead though, that’s probably what I should do.
You can put them in another bucket with custom rules.
Hold on, is that possible in nextDNS? Never seen that option before.
I pay for NextDNS. It’s under new profiles on the top left.
I alos pay, but have completely missed this feature hehe. Thanks for pointing this out, completely solves this issue for me 🙌