{"id":238225,"date":"2026-05-02T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/i-replaced-adguard-with-nextdns-on-android-and-im-not-going-back\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T10:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:05:08","slug":"i-replaced-adguard-with-nextdns-on-android-and-im-not-going-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/i-replaced-adguard-with-nextdns-on-android-and-im-not-going-back\/","title":{"rendered":"I replaced AdGuard with NextDNS on Android and I\u2019m not going back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/use-nextdns-instead-of-adguard-android\/\">I replaced AdGuard with NextDNS on Android and I\u2019m not going back<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/use-nextdns-instead-of-adguard-android\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/use-nextdns-instead-of-adguard-android\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-02 09:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DNS is one of the very first settings I change on any Android phone, mainly because I can\u2019t stand how aggressive ads have become. They\u2019re everywhere now \u2014 inside apps, buried in websites, baked into games, and sometimes even hiding in your phone\u2019s own software. <\/p>\n<p>For the longest time, AdGuard was my go-to solution for dealing with that mess. But after trying NextDNS on a whim, I realized there was a much better way to handle ads, trackers, and privacy on Android. <\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tI replaced my ISP&#8217;s DNS without touching my router and got faster, safer browsing<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">You\u2019re probably using the wrong DNS and don\u2019t know it.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"setting-up-nextdns-is-quick-and-painless\">\n                        Setting up NextDNS is quick and painless<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"you-have-a-couple-of-ways-to-go-about-it\">\n            You have a couple of ways to go about it<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>Like most DNS providers, setting up NextDNS is incredibly easy. You can either do it from a web browser or download the NextDNS Manager app. It\u2019s an unofficial app, but it\u2019s great for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/use-nextdns-instead-of-adguard-android\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I replaced AdGuard with NextDNS on Android and I\u2019m not going back https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/use-nextdns-instead-of-adguard-android\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/05\/nextdns-manager-app-home-screen-on-android.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238227,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238225\/revisions\/238227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}