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AdGuard DNS: A Privacy-Oriented DNS Server

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Re: AdGuard DNS: A Privacy-Oriented DNS Server

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Post by mderazon »

I've been looking for something like this for quite some time. I was hoping Cloudflare will offer it but they haven't

My main questions are How do we know if we can trust them with our data? How fast are they compared to Cloudflare ?

I wish there was something like Signal but for DNS. Similar in the way that you don't have to trust them to know they are not doing nefarious things with your dns queries.

I know I can install Pihole in my home network, but I want something that works on every network

Re: AdGuard DNS: A Privacy-Oriented DNS Server

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Post by Amazonerh »

This is really groundbreaking but it got less noise than I thought it would. Adhell (an app that is capable of doing system wide ad blocking along with many other things thanks to Knox which is Samsung-only capability) was the main reason I stayed with Samsung for years. Now every phone with Android Pie will be to use dns based ad blocking in all networks without running an annoying app in the background.

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Post by Nullabillity »

Amazonerh wrote: post #3

This is really groundbreaking but it got less noise than I thought it would. Adhell (an app that is capable of doing system wide ad blocking along with many other things thanks to Knox which is Samsung-only capability) was the main reason I stayed with Samsung for years. Now every phone with Android Pie will be to use dns based ad blocking in all networks without running an annoying app in the background.

There's also AdAway, which runs on any rooted Android phone, and doesn't require you to show all your traffic to a particular DNS server.

Re: AdGuard DNS: A Privacy-Oriented DNS Server

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Post by Amazonerh »

time4tea wrote: post #4

Pi hole (free) is good for this kind of thing if you are at home https://pi-hole.net/ I found that pihole did too much so wrote my own. I dont think it has any users, except in my house but it seems to work https://github.com/time4tea-net/py-hole/blob/master/README.m...

But does it work on outside home and on 4G?

Re: AdGuard DNS: A Privacy-Oriented DNS Server

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Post by EpiphanyMachine »

update: They say they do not log anything, and pass no information upstream to the authoritative DNS server.

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I didn't see anything in the announcement about logging or other privacy related questions. The FAQ also didn't list this information.

The only thing they mention about privacy is how a dns request to them is protected, but not what they do with the data.

Did I miss something?

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Reading their privacy policy:

>We do not collect anything for tracking purposes and take all necessary technical, administrative and physical measures to protect the information we get.

>When AdGuard DNS user tries to visit a page, our server receives following information: User’s IP-address; DNS request which contains domain name.

>The DNS request will be forwarded to a root or authoritative DNS server, but for the upstream server it looks as if this request is originated from AdGuard DNS server, there is absolutely no way for them to identify the original user. We, in our turn, do not log or save any of this information.

https://adguard.com/en/privacy/dns.html

Re: AdGuard DNS: A Privacy-Oriented DNS Server

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Post by drewg123 »

EpiphanyMachine wrote: post #7

update: They say they do not log anything, and pass no information upstream to the authoritative DNS server. ------ I didn't see anything in the announcement about logging or other privacy related questions. The FAQ also didn't list this information. The only thing they mention about privacy is how a dns request to them is protected, but not what they do with the data. Did I miss something? ------- Reading their priv…

I suspect this really screws with the DNS tricks used by many CDNs to route requests to near-by servers. So I would not be surprised if, when using this, YouTube, Netflix, etc, get much slower.
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