Technical Featured Does Control D Collect or Store Your Data? If you’re using a DNS management service like Control D, you’re very likely a privacy-conscious person. Pursuant to privacy consciousness, of course, is the question: who has my data, why, and - most importantly - how do I get in charge of it?
Technical DNS vs VPN: Breaking Down the Difference My mother always says, “Never use TLAs”, but I'm here with a comparison between DNS and VPN services to show you that they aren't all scary!
Announcements Featured Improving Our Malware Filter With Machine Learning Today, we’re introducing our new “AI Malware Filter.” This filter adds a new layer of malware protection for all your devices and can be enabled in the Profile Options menu.
Announcements Featured Goodbye Control Panel. Hello Dashboard. Control D is phasing out the Control Panel and introducing the brand new Dashboard UI!
Use Cases Featured Securing Your Public Wi-Fi Network for Your Small Business We take a look at how you can prevent Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notices on your public Wi-Fi.
Use Cases Featured Control D Use Cases: Start-Up Businesses Small businesses make up almost half of all targets of cyber attacks - learn what threats you face and how Control D can help you stay safe.
Use Cases Featured Protecting Students On Your School Network We take a look at how Schools can use Control D to help protect students from problematic content and malicious actors.
Technical Featured Control D vs Pi-hole - An Honest Comparison Yegor takes a look at the similarities and differences between Control D and Pi-Hole.
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.
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.
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.
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 to the web panel, which together make up the v1.3.0 of the product. We’ve affectionately codenamed the
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.
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.
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.
Announcements Featured 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.
Featured 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.
Technical Featured 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.
Use Cases Featured 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.
Technical Featured The Default Rule This nifty little toggle lets you modify the general behavior of Control D, letting you block, bypass, or redirect traffic.
Use Cases Featured 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.
Announcements Featured 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 quite a bit and we're taking your feedback to heart. The following will describe what we changed or
Announcements Featured 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 for that has come. Major update of Control D has been released, and it brings a ton of new things.
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 busy beavers (we're from Canada after all) and you may have noticed some new things last week. New
Announcements Featured 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 the finishing touches on a major ControlD update. The update is available now and has a whole lotta added features.
