Dealing with the Enshittification of ProtonVPN's Free Plan (WireGuard+NextDNS)

This post is originally composed on 2024-11-28. I’m updating it for combining NextDNS, since I have started using a new freemium app with nasty ADs in it. ProtonVPN’s free plan doesn’t allow me to configure AD blocking DNS, especially with their official app. But with WireGuard app, this can be trivial. Thank to the original guide on reddit, the newly added part is in the end of this article. As a early adopter of Protonmail, I use their later coming VPN product as well, regularly yet lightly. Although I’m a potential customer but still not paying for any of their plan, for many reasons. ...

May 12, 2025 · 5 min · Jun

Unblock URLs from My Own Filter Lists

Podcast doesn’t fetch I have multiple devices that are using different URL based filter methods. Some are at the router level and some are at the system level, e.g., Hosts file, DNS and VPN built-in. Recently, I found out there is a broken one in my podcast subscriptions. It’s been a long time not listening to the podcast, Startups For the Rest of Us, since I started following Rob Walling’s new show called MicroConf. However, I want to return for the bonus episodes on SFTROU occasionally. ...

January 26, 2023 · 2 min · Jun