Cloudflare is proposing a brand new DNS customary it developed with Apple that’s designed to assist shut a blindspot in my (and I’m positive many others’) web privateness measures (through TechCrunch). The protocol is named Oblivious DNS over HTTPS (ODoH), and it’s meant to assist anonymize the knowledge that’s despatched earlier than you even make it onto an internet site. Whether or not that can assist you to along with your total web privateness is one thing we’ll deal with in a second, however first, we have to perceive how common DNS works, and what Cloudflare has added.
Principally, DNS lets us use the online with out having to recollect the IP handle of each web site we need to go to. Whereas we people can simply perceive names like “theverge.com”, or “archive.org,” computer systems use IP addresses…
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