Cloudflare announced today its first consumer service product, which aims for a more private and secure browsing on Internet.
The company has created a new public DNS service, which is supposed to protect users from tracking on the web, while accelerating their online experience.
And no, it's not a simple joke.
DNS resolution services provide computers with the IP addresses they need to access servers using their domains. In other words, it is what converts the domain iguru.gr to the information necessary (IP) to display the website to you.
Because DNS is essentially one χάρτης course for each connections computers with servers, we can learn a lot about a user's behavior from the information that flows through DNS. That's one of the reasons Cloudflare chose to roll out the new service, according to co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince.
Cloudflare supports DNS over HTTPS (DNS over HTTPS), an approach that will make us safer.
"We've come to the conclusion that the only way is to run a trusted DNS service, other than a content-serving department, and as a consumer service," Prince said.
On the privacy side, Prince said the company will delete all the logs of the service and will not hold any of the IP addresses that have access to the service.
Users who are interested in trying the new service can click in 1.1.1.1 to find the necessary DNS setup instructions depending on the operating system they are using.
Cloudflare 1.1.1.1
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