Have you looked into their privacy policy, is it alright?

Seems quite easy to remember with a nice jingle, like the emergency number... 0118 999 881 999 119 725. 3.

Run your own DNS resolver

How does DNS4EU support NIS2?

“Member states should encourage the development and use of public and secure European DNS resolver service.” NIS2 directive, 2023

DNS4EU, a European initiative, presents multiple avenues for establishing a secure and compliant DNS resolver, aligning seamlessly with EU regulations. Its base lies in the cornerstone EU documents such as the Cybersecurity Strategy of the EU.

Finally, it was recommended in the European Parliament and Council’s directive NIS2.

only one point - the whole setup is...

This confuses the fuck out of me because my VPN in Switzerland using TLS DNS shows Germany as the country in DNS leak tests.

The Swiss DNS provider doesn’t have servers in Switzerland?

800 588 2300 Empire today

So it will censor stuff as requested by governments

Why? Ao they can block what they deem to be a pirate site? Nope. Run your own Adguard Home.

This isn't implemented yet, sadly we also have stupid politicians like the rest of the world.

The EU is already trying to block and censor ips via DNS, so I don't trust this initiative at all, nor, frankly, do I trust the EU as an organization. It should stick to foreign policy, not trying to overrule our national governments to force legislation onto us that we don't want.

It's not just the nazis. Rich fucks from all over the world keep money there to hide it from authorities. Though I guess that's changing now.

You should read their policy

Quad9 is a Swiss org, but it operates at hundreds of PoPs inside many different countries (anywhere PCH has a presence), their addresses are anycast so it'll use whatever the upstream routes/BGP dictate.

Both Quad9 and CloudFlare have the closest DNS for my network, at around 1ms RTT. However CloudFlare doesn't support ECS, so I use the alternate Quad9 service that does, since it gives me better performance on a number of CDNs.

That guy thinks that the EU is one entity, not consisting of many member states.

Also it sounds like he only read headlines. Otherwise he would know that the EU survelliance bill is a proposal, which any member state can make in a democracy.

Guess the propaganda got to him if he belives more what he reads in a headline instead of what actions the EU actually makes.

I have.

It includes "compliance with EU regulations" which in this case is soon going to involve redirecting and tracking visitors to sites such as thepiratebay.

Fully expect this to be a move to enable them to enforce this via blocking DNS providers that don't comply with censorship lists, instead directing people to use this.

I don't need an EU DNS, I already have OpenDNS.

The EU is one entity, consisting of several member states. Just like my own country consists of many regions and municipalities with their own elected officials.

Member states are forced to comply with legislation passed by the EU, even if a majority of the citizens of a state do not want to implement it. Technically there are two other options - sufferimg massive fines and punitive actions by the EU, or leaving. I'd rather not have to endure either of those, so instead I complain, loudly, online, to politicians, MPs and MEPs.

This isn't really on topic but since you mentioned it, the only way for Europe to stay relevant is if we integrate more.

That depends on what you mean by integrate. There are many clear examples where it makes no sense to enforce homogenous legislation. Europe is a big place, and it makes sense to have different systems in different places.

Take tires for instance - in the Scandinavian countries we require winter tires for the season, something which would make no sense in Italy for instance.

Yeah, sure. Go complain about your life in the EU. Must be awful.

Maybe go outside and enjoy your privileged life in Europe.

Not sure about adguard, but unless you are running it with unbound or similar, you still have to point it at a DNS server someone else controls.

With unbound you go straight to the root hint servers.

Right, I understand all that but I still can’t figure out why DNS is going to a 14 Eyes country instead of staying in Switzerland.