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🇩🇪Den EU-finanzierten DNS-Dienst kann ich nicht empfehlen, weil Zugriffe protokolliert werden - bei "schädlichen Inhalten" sogar mitsamt IP-Adresse. techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-

Es gibt gute nichtstaatliche Alternativen: privacy-handbuch.de/handbuch_9

Update: Es scheint, die IP-Speicherung erfolgt im o.g. Fall für 24 Stunden, damit die Warnung vor den Inhalten nicht immer wieder angezeigt wird.

🇬🇧I can't recommend the EU-funded DNS service because access is logged. When you override warnings to access "harmful websites" they even log your IP address. techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-

There are government-free services that do not log: privacyguides.org/en/dns

Update: I understand now the IP address is kept for 24 hours to prevent the confirmation prompt from showing again.

@echo_pbreyer That doesn't seem to say that they log the IP?

It sounds like they keep your IP* in memory so you don't get reprompted about a site that you've chosen to bypass warnings on.

IMO, that's a *good* thing because it means average consumers won't simply switch away from the service if it accidentally overblocks

*In fact, not your IP, they've gone to quite extreme lengths to anonymise - they're not just masking octets, it all gets HMAC'd with a rotating key: 142290803.fs1.hubspotuserconte

Patrick Breyer

@ben Ah, I understand now. Ok, that makes sense. But they could do better than storing plaintext IP addresses, no?

@echo_pbreyer

What they're doing can only be achieved by storing some of kind of unique (and semi-persistent) identifier.

The only information available to them to identify the user is an IP, so whatever they do will always have to be derived from that - at a certain point, you're adding computational cost for no routine privacy benefit (where there is benefit though, is if that information somehow leaks).

I think they could do more, but they're also already well above most other providers