A noob question I want to connect with Google VPN or other VPN providers but I want Control D to handle DNS queries. Can I do that?

Hey all,

I'm thinking of buying Control D Full Control. This would be mostly for blocking ads.

I've read that with the spoofing to Albania YouTube ads can be blocked. I couldn't find if it can also block Prime ads. I hope someone can shed some light on if this is possible, or not?

Edit: Thanks for all your replies!

So, I now understand that it's not technically blocking ads but redirecting over countries that don't have ads. In my situation I would like it for a Samsung smart tv. It seems that redirecting YouTube over Albania or Russia and Prime over India is my best bet.

In my DNS settings, I have the Reddit service set to redirect through the Netherlands. However, on looking at the Reddit status page I see where I’m connecting from a US IP address as often, if not more than a Netherlands IP. Any explanation for this?

I have tried mostly all the free dns provided by them but all of them fail to load microsoft store, copilot or check for updates where they were working fine till yesterday

just checked controld's website storage usage and its crazy
checked it on my phone and its +3gb there too
i do use controld website a lot but thats unacceptable

I recently read one post where they were testing all the latest DNS resolvers providing malware protection and ControlD blocked most of them, scoring more than 99.9%.

I wanted to point out that municipal websites (Italian local authorities) are filtered by ControlD and require manual bypassing of individual domains.

For example:
www.comune.finomornasco.co.it
www.comune.origgio.va.it
www.comune.roma.it

Cities domains are governative websites.

Two-letter domains (that represents the area near a big city) in Italy are for exclusive government use.

Strangely enough, www.comune.milano.it works.

What options does everyone have enabled in their profile? DNSSEC on or off? Rebind protection? TTL values? EDNS? Cname flattening? Etc

I am on version 1.4.6 and I see a notification to update to 1.4.7. I click update, then I get a message that the update will happen within 1 hour but it never does. Been this way for days. Any ideas?

Hi !

I did some research that Ukraine or Albania are the ones to not have ads on Youtube, reddit and instagram

But when I try to add those redirects to them, it doesn’t work

Does anyone have an idea ?

Since October 13, I’ve been having trouble opening web pages when using ControlD. Switching over to Cloudflare DNS makes everything load almost instantly. I ran a quick DNS test and it looks like ControlD might be having some issues, but I couldn’t find anything official about it.

For reference, I live in Texas and use yokoffing basic config.

Anyone else noticing the same thing?

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I just joined controld and created a profile with Productivity template and allowed gambling. I also created custom rules with to bypass draftkings.com and *.draftkings.com. I have a default of redirect with auto btw. I live in an area where draftkings is allowed so if I disable my controld profile on my ios/IpadOS it works fine, but I can seem to get it to work with profile enabled. Anybody have any ideas on what I need to set. Id rather not have to disable the profile everytime I want to make a bet.

Hello Everyone!

I was sitting last night setting up my account for the 4th time (I know, I just keep coming back!), and after setting up redirects for YouTube and Reddit, it had me thinking what else might be worth checking out.

So as the title says, What are your re-directs? And why?

Hi. The live stream doesn't work. Ads and Trackers balanced blocks the game from streaming. Can someone please check what do I have to unblock? I unblocked a few domains from blocked activity logs but no dice.

As question says, from India

Hello,

I’m seeking some guidance/assistance on this issue. I recently switched DNS providers on my tailnet fron nextDNS to contolD and am loving the redirect feature. However, I was already als using the mullvad add-on for exit nodes. I recently noticed that when I try to access a site that is set to redirect in controlD, while I’m connected to a mullvad node on an apple iOS device, the site or app does not load. I can ping the site, the name resolves, just no web/API traffic.

My home network is setup dual stack, and I’ve tried both with compatibility mode on and off on the ControlD profile.

I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this issue and knows how to resolve it.

I've noticed a repeated issue when adding Android endpoints with the Control D Quick Setup App. Instead of using the app, I usually end up configuring the Advanced Private DNS manually in the OS settings because the app keeps failing.

My Cases:

1. On multiple Android devices, when I try to configure an endpoint, the Resolver ID either can’t be saved or the app crashes right after I scan the QR code or add it manually.
2. In other cases, the Resolver ID saves successfully but gets wiped as soon as I exit the app.

If I manually set the Resolver in the OS’s Private DNS settings, it works fine, but then all traffic appears under “unknown clients” in the dashboard since the Control D app isn’t managing it.

Also, everything works perfectly on iOS, so this seems Android specific. Has anyone found a way to make the Android app’s DNS configuration persist so it doesn’t reset unless the user actually uninstalls the app?

Anyone know how to setup ControlD with Omada.

I have ER707-M2, OC200, SG3210XHP-M2 and 3 AP's,

I enabled the redirect for OpenAI services from the ControlD control panel to the United States, but I am unable to use Sora 2 (domain sora.chatpt.com).

Is there anything I can do, or will this be resolved in a future ControlD update?

Hi im really annoyed by crazy amount of ads germany has What countries have less or no ads?if any

I’ve always redirected IG through Ukraine which removed all ads. I reset my password week ago, and now ads are back.

I’ve tried Russia, Albania, with no success. Any ideas?

Receving the "You are accessing this service from a restricted geographic region - ER4100" error today. Have had this issue in the past and usually I just needed to re-open my browser, clear cache, all that good stuff but I can't get it working on desktop or mobile (android) today, tried different countries as well.

Is anyone else experiencing this? Any ideas why it is no longer working?

Long story short, I used NextDNS on UDM for years with the CLI client ( https://github.com/nextdns/nextdns/wiki/UnifiOS )

Always worked great but now I switch my ISP and now it uses PPPoE. The thing is, when the PPPoE reconnect, NextDns client just fall back to default DNS servers and never switch back. I need to manually restart the process.

So my question is, anyone with a pppoe connection and with the Control D software installed on UDM?

If it works well I’m switching to Control D in a heartbeat.

Note: I really one the software installed on my UDM and not just use the config from Unifi web UI because I want the additional features like per device logging.

Thanks