By Jon Fingas, Engadget
Cloudflare launched its 1.1.1.1 service
in April as a bid to improve privacy and performance for desktop users,
and now it's making that technology available to mobile users. The
company has released 1.1.1.1 apps for Android and iOS
that switch the DNS service on and off with a single button press. So
long as it's on, it should be harder for your internet provider to track
your web history, block sites
or redirect traffic. You might also see performance improvements,
particularly in areas where connections aren't particularly fast to
begin with.
The service remains free, and there are pragmatic
reasons for that. It not only serves as an advertising mechanism for
Cloudflare, it potentially improves the performance of the sites
themselves. There are certainly alternative DNS options, and this is
merely one part of a larger security strategy. However, this might be
the most accessible solution of the bunch -- you don't have to know the
first thing about domain names or ISP tracking to see a difference.
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