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While it's great that we can designate our own DNS servers on the routers, instead of just using the ones provided by our ISPs, it would be even better if you could integrate DNS-over-TLS and/or DNS-...
VegasVIII
Feb 13, 2024Onlooker
That’s a very naïve and honest way to look at it, privacy wise. I do not trust ISP that will sell you data. The purpose of encrypted DNS is to block your ISP from viewing your queries, and ensuring your data is not intercepted. The profitable information is in the metadata. DNS is transmitted in plaintext or cleartext, by default. Even if I choose a a different DNS provider it is still transmitted through their infrastructure and can be seen by ISP unless it’s encrypted. The most important thing to me is make it an opt in feature, let me choose if I want to use it.