Cloudflare announced today its first consumer product, which aims at a more private and secure internet browsing.
Η company has created a new public DNS service that is supposed to protect users from web tracking while speeding up 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 turns the domain iguru.gr into information which are necessary (IP) to display the website to you.
Because DNS is essentially a roadmap for any computer-to-server connections, we can learn a lot about a user's behavior from information leaked through DNS. This is one of the reasons why Cloudflare chose to make the new service available, 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 according to operating system that they use.
Cloudflare 1.1.1.1
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