Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server”
by ThePhysicist on Thursday January 23, 2020 @04:27AM
(#22126117)
Maybe a silly question, but how do they identify you? Simply based on your IP address?
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Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server”
by ikornaselur on Thursday January 23, 2020 @04:31AM
(#22126136)
You'll have a unique 6 character id, which you'll use as a subdomain or path in dns-over-https
For example, if your id is abc123
DNS-over-HTTPS https://dns.nextdns.io/abc123
DNS-over-TLS abc123.dns.nextdns.io
You also have ipv6 hostnames, which has the id in it
Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server”
by quindecagon on Thursday January 23, 2020 @03:58PM
(#22131948)
Logs of requests can be viewed at:
https://my.nextdns.io/configuration/abc123/logs
Can anyone who knows your id also view your logs?
Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server”
by franga2000 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @06:17AM
(#22126601)
As a fallback for standard UDP DNS over IPv4, they do use your IP address in a rather clever way: they have multiple IPv4s so you can have different rule sets for different devices under the same IPv4 and they identify which ones by linking the two addresses together (NET1->DNS1 gets RULES1, NET1->DNS2 gets RULES2, etc.).