Recently I switched my DNS Resolver to one of the European public DNS resolvers | European Alternatives mainly for privacy reasons after reading Cloudflare’s blog post about analytics in their free-tiers.
But I missed the malware protection. But today I just got aware of DNS4EU For Public!
DNS4EU is an initiative by the European Commission that aims to offer an alternative to the public DNS resolvers currently dominating the market.
https://www.joindns4.eu/about
It offers 5 different flavours:
- Unfiltered resolution
- Protective resolution: Blocks access to known malicious and fraudulent websites
- Protective Resolution With Child Protection
- Protective Resolution Ad-blocking
- Protective Resolution With Child Protection & Ad-blocking
And also with some step-by-step guidelines for configuring DNS settings on a variety of platforms.
Update 23.06: The article Datenschutz: Wie viel EU steckt in DNS4EU? analyzes the technical setup. which unfortunately shows quite some US-corps involved. On the other hand, DNS4YOU does not aim to analyze the traffic.
