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DNS is the Internet's "yellow pages", translating your destination, like "www.early-retirement.org" into the address understood by the Internet's routers.
Many ISP's record what sites you visit by keeping track of your DNS lookups. They often sell that information. Not a huge deal, but if you'd rather they mind their own business, Cloudflare is offering a solution, and their privacy policy is much better.
If you go to https://1.1.1.1 you can see they're offering it to Apple and Android. The app creates a local DNS resolver which passes on to Cloudflare after being encrypted (so nobody in the middle can see it). And I've checked using GRC DNS Benchmark...this is the fastest DNS I've found.
So, just a PSA for those of you who like to marginally improve speed and privacy.
Many ISP's record what sites you visit by keeping track of your DNS lookups. They often sell that information. Not a huge deal, but if you'd rather they mind their own business, Cloudflare is offering a solution, and their privacy policy is much better.
If you go to https://1.1.1.1 you can see they're offering it to Apple and Android. The app creates a local DNS resolver which passes on to Cloudflare after being encrypted (so nobody in the middle can see it). And I've checked using GRC DNS Benchmark...this is the fastest DNS I've found.
So, just a PSA for those of you who like to marginally improve speed and privacy.