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Re:1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service by chrissnell on Sunday April 01, 2018 @12:14PM (#16729005)
Cloudflare is a private company and they're free to do what they want but their reasoning for the Daily Stormer termination felt like a convenient excuse to me. I'm sure that it was the best business decision for them but when I read a blog post touting 1.1.1.1 as being anti-censorship, I roll my eyes.

Anti-censorship so long as Matthew Prince doesn't have a bad morning.

I run my own DNS-over-TLS resolver at a trusted hosting provider. It upstreams to a selection of roots for which I have reasonable trust. My resolver does DNS-over-TLS, DNS-over-HTTPS, and plain DNS. Multiple listening ports for the secure stuff so that I have something that works for most circumstances.

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Re:1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service by ocdtrekkie on Sunday April 01, 2018 @01:49PM (#16729500)
I would still take someone who can have a bad morning and decide to censor one site (and then write about how concerning that power is), over entities that regularly view it as their "responsibility" to shut down sites and remove content they find objectionable.

I think it's great if people are running their own DNS. :) But I'm certainly not mad that Cloudflare's offering yet another public alternative. As I said, more choices is better.

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Re:1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service by JdeBP on Thursday April 05, 2018 @06:27PM (#16769330)
Running your own root content DNS server isn't particularly hard, note. The public root content DNS server operators are not interested in serving up dummy answers for all sorts of internal stuff that leaks out to the root content DNS servers any more than you are interested in sending it to them. (-:
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