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Control D vs Pi-hole - An Honest Comparison Technical

Control D vs Pi-hole - An Honest Comparison

Yegor takes a look at the similarities and differences between Control D and Pi-Hole.

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Yegor Sak
19 Feb 2023 · 7 min read
How To: Set Up Control D DNS on Windows 11 21H2 & 22H2 Technical

How To: Set Up Control D DNS on Windows 11 21H2 & 22H2

A step-by-step guide to setting up Control D on versions 21H2 and 22H2 of Windows 11.

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Unni Menon
17 Feb 2023 · 6 min read
How To: Set Up Control D DNS on Windows 10 or Earlier Technical

How To: Set Up Control D DNS on Windows 10 or Earlier

A step-by-step guide to setting up Control D using legacy DNS on Windows 10 or earlier.

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Unni Menon
17 Feb 2023 · 4 min read
How To: Set Up Control D on Firefox Technical

How To: Set Up Control D on Firefox

A simple, step-by-step guide to setting up Control D on your Firefox browser, for those users who prefer to avoid Chromium-based options.

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Unni Menon
30 Jan 2023 · 3 min read
What's New in Control D

What's New in Control D

Over the last couple of months, the team at Control D have hunkered down in the DNS Den to work on a refactor of our systems and some significant changes

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Catt Garrod
17 Jan 2023 · 5 min read
DoT Implementation Solution Technical

DoT Implementation Solution

We were recently faced with an interesting corner case implementation issue after an Asuswrt-merlin update. Here's how we fixed it.

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Kailash "QAizen" Z.
9 Jan 2023 · 2 min read
Pikaman works dilligently at his computer, while Pikagirl uses Control D to stop a surprised Zuckerberg from getting in Use Cases

Managing Your Focus With Control D DNS

It's hard to be productive with all the distractions from social media and more these days, but with our DNS service you can take back Control.

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Nile W
16 Dec 2022 · 4 min read
How To: Set Up Control D On Google Chrome Technical

How To: Set Up Control D On Google Chrome

You've chosen the best custom DNS service out there - here's how to set it up on what is, arguably, the internet's favourite browser: Google Chrome.

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Unni Menon
12 Dec 2022 · 3 min read
DNS Analytics: How to Take Control of Your DNS Queries Announcements

DNS Analytics: How to Take Control of Your DNS Queries

We're incredibly proud of the work that has gone into our Analytics feature, and we think that it's a powerful tool for our users to take more control of their internet experience.

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Catt Garrod
6 Dec 2022 · 6 min read
How Much Control Do You Need From Your DNS Service?

How Much Control Do You Need From Your DNS Service?

DNS is essential to the efficient functioning of the World Wide Web as we know it. Much like the phone books of old, it ensures that all the vital parts of the web are able to find each other and work in sync.

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Unni Menon
31 Oct 2022 · 5 min read
Now Everyone's a Hackerman: Network Simulations made Easy with Control D Technical

Now Everyone's a Hackerman: Network Simulations made Easy with Control D

I spent hours working on it before the proverbial “Eureka!” moment hit me, and I realized that I could use Control D to solve my problems in a much more straightforward way.

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Kailash "QAizen" Z.
18 Oct 2022 · 6 min read
Back to School with Control D Use Cases

Back to School with Control D

Control D is a DNS service that helps improve your privacy and productivity by letting you manage your internet traffic - all without installing a single piece of software.

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Nile W
29 Sep 2022 · 3 min read
The Default Rule Technical

The Default Rule

This nifty little toggle lets you modify the general behavior of Control D, letting you block, bypass, or redirect traffic.

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Ben Thornton
7 Sep 2022 · 4 min read
Parental Control D Use Cases

Parental Control D

We're not here to say that today's parents have it harder than any before, but they've definitely got it tough.

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Ben Thornton, Catt Garrod
29 Aug 2022 · 7 min read
Announcements

No limits, 3rd Party Filters, disable button, and more

As some of you know, we recently conducted a survey to learn more from those who use (and used to use) Control D. Safe to say, we've learned

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Yegor Sak
5 Aug 2022 · 4 min read
Announcements

UI Overhaul + New Features

Been a while since our last update, but we've been busy beavers working on things, so didn't get a chance to do an update. The time

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Yegor Sak
13 Jun 2022 · 3 min read
Announcements

New site, new upcoming features

It's been a while since the last blog update, but this is not because we were sitting around doing nothing for months, ohh no. We've been

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Yegor Sak
16 Mar 2022 · 1 min read
Announcements

Multi-Profile Support and Other Improvements

You may have noticed that we didn't do a September progress update. This isn't because we're lazy, we've just been busy putting

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Yegor Sak
14 Oct 2021 · 6 min read
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