Well, I’m now using pihole for blocking + unbound for recursive resolving

Um… yes I understand what DNS does. Really?

I’m not trying to challenge you in any way. My disconnect in understanding is what unbound does and why I would want to use it over the built-in pihole FTLDNS. What are its advantages?

EDIT: I’ve answered my own question, unbound queries root name servers directly instead of using DNS providers. This is interesting. New question, what is the advantage of being my own DNS provider? Privacy from my ISP (who can just see the IPs that I am connecting to, anyway)?

Okay but what are the advantages of doing this?

What are the advantages over pihole?

EDIT: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/ this page has a good explanation

I have a pihole serving DNS for my local network that is configured to use unfiltered Quad9 for upstream.

I support this because most all cloudflare websites require browser fingerprinting otherwise they will not serve you the page. The moment I enable the jShelter addon, I am cut off from a significant portion of the internet

I choose to become a nuclear submarine: radiation + sub-mariner + super hearing

Lol you tried

A shill is a member of a company or organization, or someone who is paid by a company or organization, to covertly advertise on their behalf while keeping their association and motivation a secret.

There is no such thing as a “privacy shill”, you actually mean to say a “privacy promoter” or “privacy advocate”, because those on lemmy that post about privacy are open and honest about their motivation.

Not everyone who is a promoter or supportive of something is a shill.

I do dare correct people who are wrong, yes. You’re still using it incorrectly in this context…

You might want to look up the definition of shilling. Seems like there’s a misunderstanding