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Best DNS for privacy? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by fatcat@discuss.tchncs.de to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I read a bit about using a different DNS for Privacy and I think the best one should be quad9? Or is there anything better except self hosting a DNS?

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[–] pound_heap@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, my question was specifically about DNS. I don't think that the sites or services you use have any way to know what DNS are you using.

ISP can capture DNS traffic, but this is where threat model comes into play... Like if you are concerned about some entity to collect you profile based on data from ISP which includes both your DNS queries and your IP

[–] cambionn@feddit.nl 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, you're right. I was mixing a few things up in my head. My bad. Altrough I did find a few interesting ways that can be used by websites to find client side DNS, it isn't exactly the norm or likely to hit you with custom setups.

I retract my point on DNS, but the general notion that do-it-yourself isn't always better stays. Al be it off-topic here now.

[–] pound_heap@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting, can you share any links regarding finding client DNS?

[–] cambionn@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

There are quite some results if you search online, but here's one with some specific info: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/129917/how-does-a-website-know-the-dns-server-a-client-uses