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There is one counterpoint for those concerned about all their DNS queries going through Cloudflare: since more and more[0] websites use Cloudflare (CF) service
by mr__y 7y ago
There is one counterpoint for those concerned about all their DNS queries going through Cloudflare: since more and more[0] websites use Cloudflare (CF) service, the traffic goes through CF regardless of DNS lookups. I'm not saying its good, just pointing out that in more and more cases CF will know about a visit to a website whether their DNS/DoH is being used or not. In such a scenario using anything else than CF would actually harm the privacy as this would spray the information over other entities/providers. (If a website is behind a CF revproxy, CF "knows" about a visit to that website, if then a non-cf DNS service is used, that DNS provider becomes a second entity to have that information).
Of course as of now majority of websites are NOT using CF, but apparently their market share is growing and this may become a larger issue in the future.
[0] Already 10% in 2018 according to this: https://www.wired.com/story/cloudflare-spectrum-iot-protection/ https://www.wired.com/story/cloudflare-spectrum-iot-protecti...