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Re:1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service by dingaling on Sunday April 01, 2018 @08:52AM (#16728018)
Both encrypted extensions are of course inspectable at the end-point, which is the privacy model being discussed.

What is intriguing to me is why Cloudflare are offering this. Perhaps it is to provide data on traffic that is 'invisible' to them, as in it doesn't currently touch their networks. Possibly as a sales-lead generator.

Or is the plan to become dominant and then use DNS blackholing to shutdown malware that is a threat to their systems?

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Re:1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service by zackbloom on Sunday April 01, 2018 @10:10AM (#16728336)
The goal is to make the sites that use Cloudflare ridiculously fast by putting the authoritative and recursive DNS on the same machine (for clients who use 1.1.1.1).
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Re:1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service by vimda on Sunday April 01, 2018 @08:57AM (#16728038)
Im probably being naive, but maybe altruism? At least if you buy into their making the internet better rhetoric
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Re:1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service by wtmt on Sunday April 01, 2018 @10:22AM (#16728412)
Cloudflare is already a significant enough player in handling Internet traffic. Maybe the company does want to do good for the sake of doing good, but I’m wary of companies taking over in this manner and making the Internet more like a monolith than a distributed system.
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