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Why is no one using Quad9 instead of Cloudfare? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 days ago by LavenderBreton@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Seems a little odd that the fediverse uses Cloudfare.

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[–] Eggman@thelemmy.club 1 point 10 hours ago

Cloudfare have many service a dns resolver is one of them. Quad9 only provide a dns resolver. When you visit a website and see Cloudfare thats has nothing to do with their dns resolver that is a complitly different service they provide to protect against ddos attacks.

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