HiFi Privacy, Data, Groups ... and You May Be The Product

[Currawong]

Encrypted DNS shouldn't slow down your internet, as it only encrypts the DNS queries. 

 

I've been using NextDNS, as it's highly configurable.  I also put it on my inlaws' computers and phones after they kept getting those "You have a virus, call Microsoft" pop-ups. It's much more efficient than using any kind of ad block. 

 

For Facebook, I recommend Firefox with Containers, which separate out groups of sites. There is a specific Facebook container, that can anonymise outbound links from FB as well, to remove the tracking.

 

Unfortunately, I can't completely let go of Google, for various reasons, but it's easy enough with browsers to isolate or block the tracking. 

[Currawong]

19 hours ago, cjf said:

Tell that to Cloudflare. I've not seen or heard of an encryption method that is not also resource intensive for both ends of the pipe.

 

I guess you found one that isn't

Are you sure you're only doing DNS with them, and not using their full WARP product which sends even the data through their systems (like a VPN does)?