Hey. My phone is a Pixel 8A Graphene OS Phone.
I am trying to make it a Safe phone. Privacy friendly phone.
Just using this DNS is enough always? Even without a VPN?
@Zerush I did send you a DM.
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I feel there are plenty of local activist/independent servers all over the EU. As long as you mind the encryption/anonymization, you can even round-robin them. Having a central EU authority is better than Google/Cloudflare and should be safe, if the implementation is sound. But there is a lot of room to meddle.
Do they resolve thepiratebay[dot]org?
Wasn’t there something really similar with dns0.eu? Are these related in any way?
"dns0.eu is a French non‑profit organization founded in 2022 by Romain Cointepas and Olivier Poitrey — co-founders of NextDNS."
whereas
"Supported by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA), the European Union's DNS4EU secure-infrastructure project"
so AFAICT the 1st is by (EU) citizens with the technical expertise and selling a related product whereas the 2nd is by the public EU administration.
It's possible, I think that DNS4EU seems a improved version.
I tried this for awhile, but I got occasionally 30 second delays before it starting replying to lookups. It did respond to icmp immediately though.
Interesting, I'd be curious to know if they have quality of service reports, benchmarks against existing alternatives.
It's tempting but if performance, e.g. latency or reliability, sucks then despite the effort I wouldn't use it.
Oh, from the same people who want you to install a mandatory app to access half of the internet? I'll pass
FWIW "Unfiltered option is a valid option for users who are confident their devices and connection are secure, and are looking for fast, reliable, and anonymised resolution service."
I have Unbound along with my pihole. Does that do the same job?
Yeah, unbound is a recursive server. It might be a tad slower but it does the job reliably.
You still have an upstream DNS server that you rely on to provide updates to your unbound server. Problem is that corporate or extremist government controlled DNS servers can track all of your requests as well as censor any domains they don't approve of. And if DNS servers or their users don't use secure protocols, then those requests additionally are tracked by ISPs or any other systems the requests travel through as well as them having the ability to block individual requests they don't want fulfilled like the Great Firewall does or most corporate internal systems sometimes do to prevent employees from accessing social media or other sites they deem not work related.