cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26984767
The European public DNS that makes your Internet safer.
A free, sovereign and GDPR-compliant recursive DNS resolver with a strong focus on security to protect the citizens and organizations of the European Union.
The most important thing is to not go for options like Google (8.8.8.8) or Cloudflare (1.1.1.1), which a lot of techies default to.
Using your ISP’s DNS is actually relatively okay, because they are quite well regulated by the GDPR and ePrivacy Directive (e.g. they cannot sell your traffic data or use it for advertising without proper freely-given consent) and you’re already paying them so they don’t need to sell your data to turn a profit. In most cases this configuration is good enough.
The remaining issues could be mass surveillance (some EU member states force ISP’s to keep traffic logs for fighting crime). Switching to a third party NS recursor could work, but you would then have to trust them.
Or perhaps you want DNS over TLS or HTTPS, which not all ISPs offer. Without that, DNS is unencrypted so an wiretapper between you and your ISP could monitor what websites you visit. But such an attack isn’t very likely to happen.
Lastly, some internet censorship is done by forcing ISP’s to block domains at the DNS level. Using a different DNS recursor gets around that, as long as there are no more sophisticated blocks in place.
Double the profit baby. STONKS!!!
Just joking, hopefully.
Might there be a problem like this with this DNS from the EU?
Edit: And thanks for you reply, really helpful
Unfortunately yes. Some member states have laws requiring ISPs (and presumably also DNS recursors) to log all traffic data, although this was partially restricted by the EU’s top court. It’s difficult to say what exactly is shared with law enforcement and this may well change in the near future.