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0 pointssaaaaaam1mo ago0 comments

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?

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surgical_fire1mo ago

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.

akerl_1mo ago

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.

surgical_fire1mo ago

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.

akerl_1mo ago

Your claim was that 1.1.1.1 was blocking sites.

Are you saying now you just had issues with the quality of service? Or do you want to provide more details to substantiate the claim that they were blocking sites?

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hirako20001mo ago

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.

akerl_1mo ago

How does that differ from Quad9? You’re subject to Swiss laws, so there’s still a government involved? And you’re now hosted in an area where the US government has far fewer limitations on what they can attempt.

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ranger_danger1mo ago

Why give all your queries to a single company with an interest in tracking you and selling your data?

saaaaaamOP1mo ago

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?

ranger_danger1mo ago

IMO all the more reason to run your own resolver and not just forward every query to a single entity.

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surgical_fire1mo ago

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.

akerl_1mo ago

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.

surgical_fire1mo ago

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.

akerl_1mo ago

Your claim was that 1.1.1.1 was blocking sites.

Are you saying now you just had issues with the quality of service? Or do you want to provide more details to substantiate the claim that they were blocking sites?

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hirako20001mo ago

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.

akerl_1mo ago

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ranger_danger1mo ago

Why give all your queries to a single company with an interest in tracking you and selling your data?

saaaaaamOP1mo ago

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?

ranger_danger1mo ago

IMO all the more reason to run your own resolver and not just forward every query to a single entity.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse