DNS4EU https://www.joindns4.eu/ https://www.joindns4.eu/about Several levels for citizens: https://www.joindns4.eu/for-public For example child protection, ad-blocking, etc. No, I haven't tried it. We have to wait how privacy works with it on the long run: Suddenly all kind of info is shared with other parties etc. ...?. Ad-blocking circumventing technologies by companies that do not want ad-blocking ... Your thoughts?
Hi, Just my concerns. Will that ever happen, I don't know. Maybe it were better if I had not posted that; I fully admit! It is a concern ... === Forgive me, for now I'm stopping with replying in the thread. Sorry!
Public DNS resovers require a lot of trust, regardles if they are sponsored by government or not. Anyway it is good that such service was created as it loosens relience on US tech firms by EU citizens and companies at least a little bit. It should be really good to use it for SOHO/remote work subnetworks in your home. I wonder what will come out of mass ad-blocking at DNS level. I bet advertisers won't give up so easily and develop ways to bypass that or stop people from using these abilities.
I'm not sure what to think about routing. I tried to do the same for two IPv4 addresses mentioned in article and their first line of ASNs. The result was that my sample was 100% EU. They do provide a Map of DNS4EU Public Resolver locations on https://www.joindns4.eu/for-public. The closest three to UK are in Ireland, France and Netherlands. Does connections between Ireland and Netherlands that does not pass through UK exist? I don't know. I even wonder if this is possible to predict/have manually vetted out "EU routes". I'm certainly not an expert on BGP, but I though this was mostly automatic protocol (with some blocklists etc) that dynamically adapts and has ability to route around damage. Anyway my conclusion is that in order to access DNS resolver that is not provided by your ISP you really ought to use encrypted connections: DNS over HTTPS or DNS over TLS. Any potentially not-geographically-short Internet connection should have some form of encryption.
