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shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 days agoMy DNS is from controld.com.
What you do is you log into your router and on the local area network page there’s generally a section to change the DNS settings of your router and you just put in the IP addresses that control D gives you.
You can also set it up on iOS and Android so that you are also protected when you leave your home network and are on the go on your cellular network.
As I said, along with Control-D, I also use U-Block Origin to catch anything that it might miss.
The other thing to do is use as many open source applications as you can possibly get away with.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Fair warning, using third-party DNS is a massive security issue; It basically allows that DNS provider to see all of the sites you’re visiting. Whenever possible, you should use a self-hosted DNS server like pi-hole.
witx@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Pi hole and Ad guard are DNS servers not resolvers. You still have to setup a resolver which is a third party (clouflare, quadns, etc)
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Depends. Using some no-name dns server in Uzbekistan is likely not going to be easily reachable for your queries by your local government, if at all.
Then again, most of you don’t have queries over encrypted protocols anyway, so it’s an open book regardless of who your third-party is.
Best case if you’re a luddite, run a very highly recommended(by the fediverse) VPN, like windscribe or mullvad, and use their dns servers. Wireguard will encrypt the queries, and the vpn being supposedly trustworthy would put any cork in it otherwise.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Thats true, i just didnt want to setup the reverse proxying for that. Also, its DoH ao my isp doesnt get my dns.