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There is a welcome screen that informs you of Portmaster handling and securing DNS queries with the option to change the provider. But especially with a VPN th
by dhaavi 4y ago
There is a welcome screen that informs you of Portmaster handling and securing DNS queries with the option to change the provider.
But especially with a VPN the privacy is increased as it effectively becomes DNS-over-TLS/HTTPS-over-VPN.
The VPN still sees your destination IP addresses, so the privacy improvement is not increased by a lot, but still.
- DavideNL 4y ago> with the option to change the provider. Ah right, that sounds good. So the user is aware of it. > But especially with a VPN the privacy is increased as it effectively becomes DNS-over-TLS/HTTPS-over-VPN. I disagree; VPN providers use an internal IP as DNS server and your connection to this DNS server goes through a secured VPN tunnel anyway. So, by sharing your DNS requests with an external 3th party you gain nothing, and it's even a decrease of your privacy since now Google/Cloudflare/etc collects all these requests.
- maxloh 4y agoSeems that there isn't an option to use the default ISP's DNS server. :(
- dhaavi 4y agoYou can use anything: DNS Configuration Guide: https://docs.safing.io/portmaster/guides/dns-configuration https://docs.safing.io/portmaster/guides/dns-configuration
- maxloh 4y agoI found the option after completed the setup process. The problem was that there isn't a "keep my DNS as is" option in the initial setup dialog (or not an obvious one), so we are forced to pick one from the four secure DNS.