Woah, that looks like an great effort! Never seen before, wonder why they're not making more noise about it and/or use it for more services, probably would have come across it while poking at various EU services DNS configs if so, but haven't so far.

Anyone happen to know exactly what the "Protective" option is for/does? I see there is one "Unfiltered", and lots of "Protective + Something" options, which is kind of clear what they do, but just "Protective", what does that mean in practice? Couldn't find any concrete information except "It protects you".

Its fairly new, as in June/July 2025, so I imagine they want to iron out the bugs before letting opening the floodgates.

If you check dns0.eu (free dns service for EU provided by the company behind NextDNS), it says they’ve closed down, and refer to DNS4EU or NextDNS.

As for what the different categories cover, they have the block lists they use linked “somewhere” on their page.

Did some research on this DNS since it seemed promising. Apparently they rely on non-EU services? https://cybernews.com/security/european-independent-dns-reli...

Interesting article, i will have to dig around some more.

I want to say though, that the initiative is sponsored by the EU and has privacy preservation as one of it's main objectives, so until proven, i will assume that this is all circumstantial.

For me at least, it solves exactly the use case i was previously using NextDNS for, which was basically DNS level ad blocking, and while i still have a NextDNS subscription, my previous months of testing have proven DNS4EU to be more stable and slightly faster responding than NextDNS (for my usage).

EU? Sponsoring privacy preservation? I’m skeptical, to say the least.

Humm they only mention wifi. Can't do it on [3-4-5]G?

of course it can, it's all TCP/IP anyway, and the DNS has no clue about your transport layer.

I did look at iOS and couldn't find DNS settings for the [3-5]G connection, that's why I'm asking...

You don’t need to be in Europe.

It works everywhere.

If you're in the EU

Tried using it from outside EU (even from outside Europe ooho) and seems to work just fine. Where are you getting the "only in the EU" from?

I wrote “if you’re in the EU” because the project only has resolvers in the EU, so accessing it from the rest of the world will likely not be worth it over local alternatives.

As for the legality, the following text is from their website:

> Yes, our DNS4EU Public Service is completely free for citizens. Although primarily intended for users within the European Union due to our infrastructure's geographic distribution, we impose no restrictions on users from other locations.

Parent initially wrote "If you're in Europe" and you tried to correct them with "If you're in the EU" which is an irrelevant correction really, the revolvers are in Europe (and EU) so obviously makes sense for anyone in Europe or nearby to use it. And for others, as secondary/verification. And yes, primarily usage is obviously for Europeans/people within EU, makes sense.

Thanks for pointing this out