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Importance of encrypted DNS? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sorry if this is a dumb question, but how important is using one of the encrypted DNS services from the megathread? I've just been using Google's DNS servers directly on my router, and have yet to have any issues. Have I just been lucky?

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[–] zeeps 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Encrypted DNS prevents a router between you and the internet from logging or re-directing your DNS queries to another server. There are enterprise firewalls that can hijack plain DNS queries destined for any IP.. Not usually necessary for home internet. It's nice to enable on mobile devices though since it evades web filters simply because the modern web is mostly proxied through services like cloudflare. Web filters heavily rely on plain old DNS for blocking rules since it's next to impossible to block by IP nowadays.