Re: Units?
Half whatever a truck is in Wales per linguine presumably.
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EE used to do similar by offering large discounts to a SIM only contract and then removing them once the contract expired. I previously had to threaten to go to OFCOM on the basis that mobile price increases must be notified in advance to get my increased fees refunded and the discount reinstated.
I am pleased to see that they have now ceased this and my 5 x SIMs @ 25GB data unlimited voice and texts for £12 each have now switched to monthly once the year has expired.
Whatever they do, I think it's more than just sinkhole the DNS requests. You still get "This is blocked by a court order" message even using Google DNS on say Virgin Media.
EE is apparemtly too small for these blocks to apply to them even though owned by BT and I can happily browse any otherwise blocked sites on my mobile phone if I don't have a VPN to hand.
And a quick Bing finds https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/commitment-to-privacy/
DEVELOPERS
Search the docs...
1.1.1.1
Setting Up 1.1.1.1
What is 1.1.1.1?
DNS over HTTPS
DNS over TLS
Supporting IPv6-only Networks
Privacy
Cloudflare 1.1.1.1
Cloudflare Resolver for Firefox
Fun With DNS
The Nitty Gritty
Privacy
Nearly everything on the Internet starts with a DNS request. DNS is the Internet’s directory. Click on a link, open an app, send an email and the first thing your phone or computer does is ask its directory: where can I find this?
Unfortunately, by default, DNS is usually slow and insecure. Your ISP, and anyone else listening in on the Internet, can see every site you visit and every app you use — even if their content is encrypted. Creepily, some DNS providers sell data about your Internet activity or use it to target you with ads. Cloudflare, in partnership with APNIC, runs 1.1.1.1, a recursive DNS service that values user privacy. Even though most Internet users have no insight into the Recursive DNS process or the entities involved in that work, there are legitimate concerns about how personal information collected through the Recursive DNS process are used or repurposed.
Cloudflare commits that 1.1.1.1 was designed for privacy first, and as a result:
Cloudflare will never sell your data or use it to target ads. Period.
All debug logs, which we keep just long enough to ensure no one is using the service to cause harm, of are purged within 24 hours.
Cloudflare will not retain any personal data / personally identifiable information, including information about the client IP and client port.
Cloudflare will retain only limited transaction data for legitimate operational and research purposes, but in no case will such transaction data be retained by Cloudflare for more than 24 hours.
Cloudflare will only retain or use what is being asked, not who is asking it. Unless otherwise notified to users, that information may be used for the following limited purposes:
Under the terms of a cooperative agreement, APNIC will have limited access to query the transaction data for the purpose of conducting research related to the operation of the DNS system.
Frankly, we don’t want to know what you do on the Internet — it’s none of our business — and we’ve taken the technical steps to ensure we can’t.
There are no real fully enterprise managed system concerns here. They can use group policy settings to force this off on imstalled browsers and do it at the network border if they want it but still see / filter what is being accessed internally.
For BYOD and guest WIFI I expect there are also solutions.
Good point. This should be done at the OS level not the browser level.
Any Linux gurus want to describe how to implement this on DD-WRT and Open WRT so every device in my house uses it?
Not that I'm a terrorist or a reader of alt.sex.hamsters.duct-tape but its the principle of the government forcing ISPs to record everything we browse...
I wouldn't think ExFAT revenue from Linux is significant
I think it costs 4 quid at retail to licence ExFAT on a Synology NAS for instance. Microsoft can easily afford to drop charges for Linux and that might even drive increased 3rd party licencing revenue.
Much better to do that and retain a non Linux licencing revenue stream for ~ another decade than risk it being replaced as many millions of Android devices already don't support ExFAT for instance.
It's often hard to argue against money making / saving proposals without hard evidence of negative impact, but still surprised this one saw daylight. Regardless that there was actually a rebellion you would have thought having as many incentives as practicable to be a partner that has to retain X number of Microsoft certified staff and keep them busy was a no brainer.
Surely 99% of people looking for stuff that is controversial enough to be blocked are going to be using a VPN for privacy so are probably not going to be inconvenienced by the blocks anyway?
I'm a fan just on the basis that the government can't track our web browsing any more.
Anyone know is there a solution for DNS over HTTPS on DD-WRT by the way?
Do you need to be over 18 to have a VPN or use a proxy server now then? Otherwise isn't this completely and utterly pointless? Screw handing over any of my personal data to porn sites.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/brazzers-porn-site-data-breach-details-of-800000-users-leaked-by-hackers-a3338031.html
And if I understand correctly, verification involves scanning a passport or driving license and uploading it. Not clear what stops kids simply using someone else's documents?