Comment by saaaaaam
6 months ago
I use cloudflare DNS because it’s faster. But should I worry, having read your comment? What is the downside to using it? What would you recommend instead?
6 months ago
I use cloudflare DNS because it’s faster. But should I worry, having read your comment? What is the downside to using it? What would you recommend instead?
Quad9.
Many years ago I used Cloudflare, and more than once I had issues with them blocking websites I wanted to access.
I absolutely despise that. I want my DNS to resolve domain names, nothing else.
For blocking things I have Pi-Hole, which is under my control for that reason. I can blacklist or whitelist addresses to my needs, not to the whims of a corporation that wants to play gatekeeper to what I can browse.
So… why not use 1.1.1.1, cloudflare’s resolver that does not block resolution?
1.1.1.2 and .3 are explicitly offered with filtered responses.
I used to use 1.1.1.1. I still had issues.
Quad9 behaves exactly as I expect a DNS to work, in the sense that I only remember I use it when the topic of DNS pops up.
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Because that would be subject to the whim of the provider, who subject to court orders would have to oblige to continue operating as US entity.
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Why give all your queries to a single company with an interest in tracking you and selling your data?
But don’t most ISPs do this? And if you use google’s DNS, for example, are they not doing this? Does cloudflare sell the data?
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