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Apple, Cloudflare, and Fastly's Oblivious DNS would bake privacy protections into the fundamental addressing infrastructure of the internet

The new protocol changes how the Domain Name System , or the "phonebook of the internet," looks up human-readable websites and matches them to machine-readable Internet Protocol addresses . Right now, users' requests for websites are expressed in cleartext, meaning that ISPs can effectively see both the website address and the IP address that identifies the device from which a user browses.

whether adding encryption and proxies introduces performance degradation to response times or page load times, and so far results suggest the impact is minimal.

 

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