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RE: Cloudflare Introduces Fast & Secure DNS @ 1.1.1.1
This is very interesting. I'd like to give it a shot, but to be honest I trust my ISP who I pay more than a free service like Cloudflare or Google for DNS.
If the model is free, you (ie your data) are more than likely the product.
Right at the very top of the product page Cloudflare says, "We will never sell your data". They don't say share.
Also note, that "we" is also quite subjective as they received over $100M in investments from partners like Google and Microsoft in late 2015. As heavy investors are those companies already part of the "we"?
We are in the era of oversharing and privacy erosion. There are lots of semantics and word play angles going on with free services to collect your data .
I would put money on the table saying your ISP will be spying and sharing your data.
Very possible. I know my ISP specifically has terms that they do not.
My point is that anyone using a free DNS service should not expect their privacy or browsing records to be locked down and never shared. If you don't care and just want speed I'm sure Cloudflare and Goog are decent options.
If you want speed and privacy you're better off paying for a repuatable DNS service with an air tight privacy policy. ;)
paying for a service that will still be slower than this and likely logs your data.
Go ahead and trust blindly and use terms like "likely". I'll continue to dig deep and read the fine print.
I said likely because I believe 99.9% ISP log, but I didn't want to say 100%