I used Google’s DNS before switching to Cloudflare, but as I’ve become more privacy conscious I decided I wanted to be as secure and private as I can, so long as it doesnt cause me inconveniences. One of the things I cant understand is what DNS I should use or how to encrypt it.
I’ve heard of OpenNIC, but also of dnscrypt-proxy, Njalla and my VPN’s DNS too and after that I got lost. I just want something that will not track me at all, has great performance and I dont have to think about once its setup. I dont want ISPs to spy on me, since my government (bit of a regime, but im not being persecuted) may want to do some snooping into my hentai search history
Cloudflare doesn’t log and they encrypt (HTTPS or TLS).
As for your ISP, worrying about DNS is kind of irrelevant as they can see all your packets. If you’re concerned about them then you have to use a VPN/TOR.
Take old laptop, install VPN on it, then install Privoxy and open a port to it (usually 8118). Now run this unit 24/7 to maintain your “pipe” out of your ISP.
Setup all of the browsers in your household to point to your VPN gateway. They’l lget their DNS from it.
Just a quick negative word on ‘Open DNS’. That company began unilaterally censoring the web a few years ago (i.e. porn, media copyright stuff, perhaps even “undesirable political content” by now?).
Cloudflare doesn’t log and they encrypt (HTTPS or TLS).
There is essentially no chance Cloudflare hasnt received an NSL at this point given the amount of traffic they “control”. We should assume Cloudflare absolutely logs.
CloudFlare means well but at the end of the day, they are a US based company. So at anytime they could turn into a spying company against their will due to NSL’s & Gag Orders. (National Security Letters).
So it’s highly advised to not use US based providers and services. Instead try a European based provider that has no key disclosure laws