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by ninjin 370 days ago
Here is the policy for their public-facing DNS:

https://142290803.fs1.hubspotusercontent-eu1.net/hubfs/14229...

Read it rather quickly, but looks fine at least on the surface. Sadly, there is no way I would trust anything as sensitive as DNS with the EU given their dreadful record of creeping surveillance.

4 comments

There aren't many places with stronger privacy and personal data protection legislation than the EU. Switzerland I guess is better.
Trusting anyone to provide DNS seems silly in this day and age. I wouldnt single out the EU at all.
I respect that, but I am curious, what DNS do you use?
Depends a bit on which machine really. Overall, I am more confident trusting a company with a good track record or non-profit with DNS. Mullvad have great offerings with optional content blocking and DNS over both HTTPS and TLS:

https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

If there are other entities (commercial or not) with similar DNS services I would be happy to hear about them.

I find some reactions here to my initial comment a bit puzzling. Yes, the EU has a number of great attempts at getting privacy legislation right. Personally, I even have sympathies for the cookie banners. But it is equally true that we have seen attempts and successes to introduce surveillance measures as well. I remember the fight against the Data Retention Directive [1] and we still have "Chat Control" lurking in the shadows. Thus, I do not think I am entirely wrong in feeling less than chuffed about the prospect of handing all my DNS queries straight over to an entity working directly under the European Commission.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive

dns.mullvad.net is supposed to not filter/block, but it does, so I had to replace it.
There were many laws on surveillance proposed in the EU context as there are many parties that make proposals. But there's no actual such law in place. And the EU is bound by GDPR and EDPR and actually does a huge circus to respect them, so I'd trust them more than any other party, be it my provider or the mega corps collecting data for ads.