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by adfreelife 3241 days ago
I'm not sure why it keeps getting flagged, but it seems to be removed quickly afterwards.

It actually only sends your DNS traffic, which turns a pretty url (like https://www.adfree.life) into an ugly IP (like 70.42.251.42) and then returns to your computer to make the actual call with all of the important stuff. It is not to be confused with a VPN, where your traffic could actually be logged. You can read more about it here http://computer.howstuffworks.com/dns.htm
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jmcdiesel 3241 days ago
Getting the URL of every site a person visits is quite a data mine... not something I'd personally be up for paying for. I have to give AT&T Gigafiber extra money to not track my stuff...

Without trying to be insulting, I think everyone is getting a little too greedy lately with the information they want sent into their "cloud".

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Bartweiss 3241 days ago
To be blunt, that's still too much for me. I'm already unhappy about my ISP having my DNS history, I certainly don't want to offer it to a third part for a service that I could run without giving up that info.

I don't say that as a product criticism, I see why you can't do it another way and plenty of people won't mind. But if you're curious, that takes me out of the pool for this service. Shipping trusted hardware that could go behind a router is about all I'd be open to.

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shock 3241 days ago
Give dnscrypt a try. Someone will still know that your IP made those requests, but it will be much harder to tie your identity to the IP.
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