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Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 Service Launches on Android and iOS (fastcompany.com)
harrymcc writes: Content-distribution network Cloudflare has introduced iOS and Android versions of 1.1.1.1, a free service which helps shield you from snoops by replacing your standard DNS with its encrypted (and speedy) alternative. The mobile incarnation of the PC service it launched last April, the apps don't require you to do anything other than downloaded and install them, give your device permission to install a VPN, and flip a switch -- making them approachable for the masses, not just geeks.
This is an awesome service! The more we can encrypt any data that others use to identify who we are and what we do on the Internet... the better (and safer) we are. It returns control of our devices... and our private information... to us.
Thank you, Cloudflare!
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Because that's very important. Very. The most important. And it really won't be that hard.
Is Cloudflare watching everything you do like Google and the U.S. government?
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Give your device permission to install a VPN
I do not consider that a simple or small permission.
If they host a lot of the content, they know what you're looking at. Now they know.. what you're looking at. Problem is what?
We have a simple solution!
Install this app and give Cloudflare permission to access all of your network traffic and you can use our DNS server!
This isn't protecting traffic from snooping, it's exposing traffic to Cloudflare. The same company which makes a business model out of holding other people's private TLS keys. The same company which refuses to stop serving known spammers. The same company which was breaking half the internet for Tor users.
Cloudflare is the kind of centralization we need to get away from.
shield you from snoops
They ARE the snoops. Their main business is being the man in the middle between most internet users and of the websites on the western internet.
Encryption become hard to crack so the NSA came up with a problem (DDoS) and then a nice solution (CF) to that problem. Now they MiTMing everyone and getting them to PAY for the privilege. 1.1.1.1 is genius way to people to hand over all their DNS lookups.
Seriously, what the actual f*ck? Who in their right mind would use such a service from *any* provider like this not just cloudflare
I want a VPN to X. Why? Why isn't normal internet good enough?
Because you want to get something you're not allowed due to DRM? Probably illegal.
Because you're getting censored by your country? Then what you're doing via VPN is probably illegal.
Because you don't want to be seen? probably doing something illegal.
What better way to get access to all those people than to create a VPN for them to all go to, so you can easily monitor their traffic.
F*cking retarded.
What makes this any better than quad?
I'm curious about their altruism.
How am I supposed to remember that IP address? If only there was a system to translate such IP addresses into more human-friendly names that are easier to remember...
I deny that I have not avoided attaining the opposite of that which I do not want.
And when you are not content with these patches remember gurus like Vint Cerf that designed these wonderful problems and gave your privacy to the NSA only to come back and complain on huge speaker fees.
Blokada blocks ads and give you the ability to use 1.1.1.1 or other DNS servers. Just use that instead.
This works only for ipv4 traffic (the vpn part) so if the network ypu connect to is dual stacked only 44 traffic will be secured and since most apps use ipv6 as defaulr when avalable a significant portion ofyour traffic will not use the vpn, how could cloudflare miss this? Itâ(TM)s not like these pople donâ(TM)t know about nerworking is it
I use this on my Android 8.1 device simply because it's convenient. As for my home network, I run my own DNS servers so I really don't have to worry much about DNS traffic being snooped by my ISP. If I were so inclined, I could also run all of my home network traffic over a VPN to my own cloud servers. But this initiative by CloudFlare is nothing more than a gimmick to make money. Instead of your ISP selling your data, CloudFlare now gets the piece of the pie.
Tor has a VPN like setup now on Android. Which means that you no longer have to be rooted to torify any app
You need to insert the dns because you can't configure a custom dns on a gprs/2g/4g connection on phones. so what to do? well create a local vpn and intercept the dns there. the vpn doesn't need to "go" anywhere.
You cannot filter/block the dns requests otherwise on the phone itself. this situation sucks and is deliberate. this is a janky workaround to combat that.
This idea of doing filtering like this is years old. there's a bunch of apps like this on play store.
- on a related note, samsung for example has actual api's to configure the actual firewall, those apis aren't free to use but behind a licensing deal(your phone check the developers key when you use an app that has done the licensing with samsung).
or, of course, you could just root your phone. I mean that would be the most sensible thing to do. you can't configure these vpn's to be "always on" anyways - and fucking android lets some built in stuff bypass the always on vpn setting anyways.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Isn't this just trading in one snoop with a different snoop?
Hey, Windows users, there is no such thing as "forward" slash, there is only slash and backslash.
Cloudflare's DNS will not resolve any of the archive.is TLDs.