Cloudflare and Apple's new DNS protocol
A new DNS standard developed with Apple is proposed by Cloudflare designed to help shut a blindspot in my internet privacy measures and maybe many others. The name of this protocol is Oblivious DNS over HTTPS or, in short ODoH, its meaning is to anonymize the data. This data is sent before you even make it onto a site. However, it'll assist you with your general net privacy; that's something we will tackle within seconds, but firstly, we require to understand how ordinary DNS functions and what special Cloudflare has added. In case you're worried about security, you may have seen that this system allows running the DNS server to know about each site you're visiting. For the most part, it's your ISP running the server, and I don't think anything is preventing them from offering that information to advertisers. This is the issue Cloudflare and co are hoping to understand with ODoH. Essentially, DNS allows the use of the web without recoll...