Comment by kijin
6 days ago
> This will make blocking websites very difficult if they use shared services like cloudflare or cloud VPS hosting.
Until some clueless judge orders all of cloudflare to be blocked.
6 days ago
> This will make blocking websites very difficult if they use shared services like cloudflare or cloud VPS hosting.
Until some clueless judge orders all of cloudflare to be blocked.
True!
Though I worry that instead western governments will beat the judges to the punch and start asking things like DNS providers or even HTTPS servers to keep logs that can be subpoenaed much like a telecom company keeps a log of each phone call ("metadata"), or else be blocked...
Western governments just send a court order to the hosting provider to shut the site down / revoke their domain name. Site blocking is more of a problem for small counties trying to block sites the rest of the world allows to be hosted.
In terms of privacy, your DNS history probably isn't very interesting. It's almost all going to be requests for the top social media sites. Which governments have full access to the stuff you post there.