You should understand why when a DNS server who is now catching up as the popular choice for blocking ad trackers now suddenly experience higher downtimes.

Same goes to DuckDuckGo search engine, after people started making the switch from Uncle G, it started to go out of service very often.

I'm not blaming others, but their competitors don't really like them stealing away their revenues/monopoly.

If it ever comes to such tightly regulated situation in the country, it's best that consumers start to wake up and do what it's due.

Start DOWNGRADING your internet plans to more affordable ones out there and cut spending on it. Head out of your house and experience the real world more yourself and not being a hermit behind the screen.

Soon all those ISPs will see a sharp decline in revenues and traffic. The datacenter industry will soon COLLAPSE and many of them will go out of business.

The internet will return to what it once meant to be SOLELY for BUSINESS transactions/promotion and information seeking.

There is actually a real life out there that humans should cherish more than to be over reliant on dumb electronics.

Over the years socmed has turned so toxic that it became the source of political propaganda, hate, lies, family breakups, rumors and woke nonsensical brainwashing.

What you suggested does not really work well with the general population of internet users out that that makes up mostly of mobile phone users.
Probably <1% of them would resort to drastic measures to circumvent the filtering with non popular VPN protocols like v2ray, vmess/vless, XTLS, TrojanGFW etc..It's just too much a hassle to set up on your phone.

Also most of the socmed content sites such as TikTok, Meta and Google can detect traffic originating from suspected VPN and restrict access to their contents.

This is EXACTLY the BEST strategy for consumers to stand up against unwanted content/rumor mills which are funded by political elitists.

DO NOT FEED the MONSTER and it'll soon starve itself.
Deprive them on click ad-revenues and stop subcscribing to their overpriced plans.

Malaysian internet consumers can do their part but downgrading the internet plans and stop paying for plans which they don't use it fully.
Why pay hundreds every month on useless fixed internet subscriptions when you are rarely at home, most of your internet usage is on your mobile device outside and subscribe to pay TV contents when you only to have time to bath then go to sleep before returning to work the following day?

99% of the internet users out there mostly mobile users won't bother or they'll just adapt by losing interests in the internet after this or downgrading their internet plans when they're not utilizing as much as before.

Including myself, if you're occupied fully by day job to do you won't bother going to the extend of setting up your own private DNS or VPS.

It'll be a blow to the datacenter industry and ISPs since many will start losing interests in abusing the internet after this.

Those who still access the internet on their desktops are declining in market share today.

Indonesia heavy internet filtering is probably the reason why datacenters found them less viable because of data access restrictions does not go well with their policies.

Do you know that even Singapore has more relaxed and open policy compared to Malaysia when it comes to torrenting?

Unless you are the top heavy user in torrenting and pirating, regular users are overlooked in Singapore unlike Malaysia.

Here's the table of torrent and information friendly countries 2024:

Countries Where Torrenting is Legal — Updated Guide in 2024
https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/torrents-ill...update-country/

4 Levels of intensity for torrent allowance Malaysia is ranked highest when it comes to torrent treatment on the same oppressive levels as Australia, China, Russia and USA where zero tolerance and shutdown of torrent sites on discovery.