New DNS Service Launched by IBM Vows to Keep Your Browsing Habits Secret

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> New DNS Service Launched by IBM Vows to Keep Your Browsing Habits Secret
>
> Dell Cameron <//kinja.com/dellcam>Today 12:32pm 
> <https://gizmodo.com/new-dns-service-launched-by-ibm-vows-to-keep-your-brows-1820508262>
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> A new online service was launched Thursday morning to keep your browsing habits out of the hands of marketers and 
> help you automatically avoid millions of malicious websites.
>
> The new Domain Name System (DNS) service offered by Quad9 <https://www.quad9.net/>—a nonprofit founded by IBM 
> Security, Packet Clearing House (PCH), and The Global Cyber Alliance—is free to use and takes only a minute to set 
> up. Quad9's DNS promises to check websites visited by users against the IBM X-Force 
> <https://www.ibm.com/security/xforce/> threat intelligence database, as well as 18 additional databases, and will 
> detect and automatically block access to known malicious websites.
>
> Moreover, Quad9 promises not to collect, store, or sell any information about your browsing habits—protections that 
> would’ve been standard anyway, had Congress and the White House not already sold out the American consumer 
> <https://gizmodo.com/that-s-because-canadians-are-really-good-at-self-deport-1793792554>.
>
> This spring, President Donald Trump signed congressional legislation repealing FCC privacy protections that would’ve 
> banned internet service providers (ISPs) from collecting and selling customer information without user consent. The 
> Obama-era rules were set to be implemented this year and would’ve prevented ISPs—such as AT&T, Comcast and 
> Verizon—from mining data about you and your browsing habits for marketing purposes.
>
> That’s right, the government screwed you. Try to contain your surprise.
>
>
> “Every day, there’s a new article or news story about how someone on the Internet is making money by chipping away at 
> your privacy, or collecting some bit of data you didn’t realize you were emitting,” John Todd, executive director for 
> Quad9, told Gizmodo. “This project turns that around and gives a little bit of privacy back to users.”
>
> For the uninitiated, DNS services are an essential component of the internet, translating actual IP addresses such as 
> “151.101.1.34” into easy-to-remember names like “Gizmodo.com.” Unless you’ve altered your DNS settings yourself, your 
> DNS is likely set to whatever you ISP would like it to be. Unfortunately, many DNS services monitor your traffic—data 
> from which is then resold to online marketers and data brokers.
>
> Essentially, IBM, PCH, and the Global Cyber Alliance are vowing never to do this.
>
> “We feel consumers should have an option to take control of their privacy and protect this information,” Todd said. 
> “Quad9 provides that. Quad9 does not store, correlate or otherwise use personally identifiable information.”
>
> Moreover, service promises speed. “Leveraging PCH’s expertise and global assets around the world, Quad9 has points of 
> presence in over 70 locations across 40 countries at launch,” Quad9 said in a statement, adding that it plans to 
> double its global presence over the next 18 months.
>
> If you’d like to take advantage of the service, it’s simple to set up: Change your DNS settings in your device or 
> router to point to 9.9.9.9. If you need help, just follow the instructions in the videos linked below:
>
> How to install on your Mac <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM4AdfEnAmY>
> How to install with Windows <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aujUl3yt6nM>
> And if you’re looking for other ways to conceal your browsing habits from your ISP or anyone else who might be 
> snooping, here’s a guide <https://gizmodo.com/how-to-hide-your-browsing-history-from-your-snooping-is-1793687193> 
> from Gizmodo’s Adam Clark Estes. 



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