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if you've ever been interested in boosting your internet speeds without

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paying extra for it um yes

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please you may have seen that changing your DNS settings can help but what the

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heck does DNS mean and what kind of DNS

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can actually make your browser noticeably faster DNS stands for domain

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name system and it's a crucial part of how the web functions the primary job of

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DNS is to take the host name of a website say youtube.com and translate it

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into a numerical address called an IP address that tells your computer what

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server it needs to connect to in order to load that web page if you remember

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paper phone books it's a little bit like how those would translate the name of a

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person or business into a phone number you could call to reach them or maybe

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you weren't born in the 20th century I I don't know when you type in the name of

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a website or even just click a link your system sends a DNS query to determine

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the correct IP address but but this process takes time meaning a slow

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connection to a DNS server can result in delays before the page loads which we

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refer to as latency but here's the thing these days most major internet service

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providers default to DNS servers that are pretty fast although it's still

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possible to save time by changing to a faster DNS server if you're noticing

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frequent problems with loading websites it's likely that this won't make much of

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a perceptible difference if you're only saving 10 or 20 milliseconds so does

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this mean that ad viice telling you to adjust your DNS is mostly

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useless not so fast we'll tell you how it can still significantly improve your

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by changing to a commonly recommended public DNS like cloudflare or Google

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what might be more impactful is switching to a filtering DNS service

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that blocks ads you see when you load a web page with ads you aren't just making

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one DNS request for the actual website you're visiting

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instead your system has to send lots of DNS requests because the ads on that

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page often live on completely different domains not only does this add more

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latency since you're making additional requests but loading all these ads can

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seriously slow down your browser's performance even if they aren't that

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large in terms of file size modern ads often involve lots of scripts basically

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extra code your browser has to run which can make your browser feel sluggish or

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even nonresponsive and have even worse consequences if the script contains

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malware this is a big part of the reason that some web pages on smartphones can

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be very frustrating to scroll through not only do all those ads take up a lot

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of screen real estate but your phone's CPU can have a hard time keeping up with

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all those scripts and this can be an issue on lower-end PCS as well a

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filtering DNS service can mitigate this problem by blocking DNS requests to

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known advertising servers so none of these scripts or other junk from ads

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makes it to your PC or phone in the first place wait a sec we already have

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ad blocking extensions and app so why would I want to use a filtering DNS well

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one advantage you might want to consider is that because all you have to do to

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use a filtering DNS is change a setting in your operating system or on your

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router there isn't any software overhead lightening the load on your CPU reducing

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battery consumption and decreasing the possibility of software bugs and if

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we're talking specifically about a phone or a laptop assigning a filtering DNS

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will protect you no matter where you take it instead of having it rely on on

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whichever DNS server your cellular provider or a random public Wi-Fi

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network uses we're going to link an article in the video description giving

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you instructions on how to change your DNS server don't worry it's not hard as

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well as a list of ad blocking DNS Services you can try out for yourself

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one thing to keep in mind though is that unlike ad blocking extensions filtering

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DNS Services can't clean up the web page for you after blocking Those ads so

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you'll just see a blank space where the ad was supposed to go leaving you

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wondering what kind of marvelous product you're missing out on hearing about what

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if it was cool what if I wanted it hey that was a techwiki thanks for watching

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if you like this video check out our other video on how Chrome is crippling

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ad blocking extensions possibly making ad blocking DNS even more appealing what

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a great recommendation