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On April Fool's Day and Easter Sunday, Cloudflare launched a new "privacy-oriented" domain name system (DNS) service with two IP addresses: 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1. These addresses were offered by the Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) in exchange for allowing APNIC to study the "garbage traffic" often sent to them. The service supports both DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS, and DNSPerf currently ranks 1.1.1.1 as the fastest consumer DNS resolver:
Cloudflare is launching its own consumer DNS service today, on April Fools' Day, that promises to speed up your internet connection and help keep it private. The service is using https://1.1.1.1, and it's not a joke but an actual DNS resolver that anyone can use. Cloudflare claims it will be "the Internet's fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service." While OpenDNS and Google DNS both exist, Cloudflare is focusing heavily on the privacy aspect of its own DNS service with a promise to wipe all logs of DNS queries within 24 hours.
DNS services are typically provided by internet service providers to resolve a domain name like Google.com into a real IP address that routers and switches understand. It's an essential part of the internet, but DNS servers provided by ISPs are often slow and unreliable. ISPs or any Wi-Fi network you connect to can also use DNS servers to identify all sites that are visited, which presents privacy problems. DNS also played an important role in helping Turkish citizens avoid a Twitter ban.
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @10:55PM (9 children)
Anybody who uses Tor regularly is well aware of Cloudflare.
There are many websites such that when you visit one of them via a VPN (or especially Tor), you are greeted with a page from... Cloudflare (which I guess means all the traffic to that website goes through Cloudflare. So much for privacy); Cloudflare tells you that your traffic seems suspicious, and that you need to prove you're a human rather than some automated bot.
In the old days (not long ago), this involved solving puzzles, which were probably just a way to crowdsource the training of AIs. If you solved a puzzle, you got through to the website.
Now, Cloudflare seems to use Google's reCAPTCHA service, and Google has NO time for Tor. You click on the usual "I'm not a robot" button, and then Google, almost invariably, with the usual passive aggressiveness of someone who knows he holds all the power, tells you something that can be paraphrased as follows: "Sorry, we don't care whether you're a human. We don't want traffic from your network."
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @11:02PM (7 children)
I run into this shit from Cloudflare all the time with Private Internet Access (PIA VPN) and there's no completing that captcha with script blocking enabled. Cloudflare is run by complete dickheads.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Monday April 02 2018, @11:14PM (5 children)
Cloudflare is certainly not run by dickheads: it's run by sumbitches who are in the same business as Facebook and Google - the business of de-anonymizing you and raping your privacy any which way they can. They most certainly don't want you to be able to complete that captcha anonymously. That's totally on purpose.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @12:18AM (4 children)
while OP did not.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @01:14AM (3 children)
makes total sense to me, the upmod went to someone that was logged in, under their username.
(Score: 4, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday April 03 2018, @01:42AM (1 child)
People use their real names on the Chinese Internet. They use their real names on the Facebook Internet. Let me tell you, it's terrific. It's tremendous for China. And it's tremendous for Facebook.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday April 03 2018, @05:51PM
Especially when they want to
executere-educate dissidents. Maybe you find their lack of a First Amendment terrific and tremendous too.This sig for rent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @07:04AM
Hey bro, can you get me a job at Cloudflare?
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @11:33PM
> I run into this shit from Cloudflare all the time with Private Internet Access (PIA VPN) and there's no completing that captcha with script blocking enabled.
You're saying there's a way to complete it with script blocking *disabled*?
I'm also on PIA. Occasionally I'll want to access the "protected" page anyway and temporarily enable scripts, but more often than not I give up and close the tab anyway. Once it took me more than five minutes to go through, I'd solve the captcha, they'd just give me a new one, rinse and repeat. It was so absurd, I didn't give up just because I wanted to see how far does it go.
Of course, most of the captcha-"solving" time is taken up by annoying animations. "Click on all images containing a bus." Ok. I think this and this are buses. This may be a bus or a truck, too tiny to see, let's say it's a bus. Click, click, click. Sloooooowly fade out, slooooowly fade in... Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Great, cleared! Let's see that webpage! Wait, why does it fade out and in again? "Click on all images containing a street sign." FFFFFFFFF--------
I should invent a bank vault with captcha-based access. No one would be able to steal from *that* motherfucker.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by RedIsNotGreen on Monday April 02 2018, @11:44PM
Yeah, fuck those sites. When I see that too-familiar Cloudflare screen or come across a site that requires reCAPTCHA to register, I just hit Back and don't look back.