Internet security company Cloudflare and Apple have teamed up to propose a new DNS standard that would prevent your Internet Service Provider (ISP) from seeing which websites you visit and selling that information.
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Every time you click or type a link, your computer has to translate it into the actual address of a host computer on the Internet. To do this, it uses something called DNS, a kind of Internet address book. The problem is that your computer normally uses your ISP’s DNS server, which means your ISP can (and probably does) track the sites you visit and sell your information. Cloudflare and Apple’s new DNS standard, called “Oblivious DoH,” makes this whole process private.
"There are a number of security and privacy issues with the way the Internet is built. Over the last decade, the focus has been on moving the web from being largely unencrypted to encrypted by default with HTTPS," Nick Sullivan, Cloudflare's chief research officer, told Lifewire via email. "With over 80% [of] browsing now done over HTTPS, the industry's attention has shifted to solving other privacy issues, such as those inherent in DNS."
When your browser connects to a website, it is actually connecting to a computer that hosts that site. That computer, like yours, has a numerical IP address. For example, the site you are reading right now has an IP address of 151.101.66.137.
