Back in April this year, Cloudflare announced 1.1.1.1; the privacy-first consumer DNS service that is said to speed up your internet connection and help keep it private. The company now is launching 1.1.1.1 mobile app to make it easy to use 1.1.1.1 on your phone.
Anyone can use the DNS resolver and the company claims it to be “the Internet’s fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service.” DNS is an essential part of the internet and it is typically offered by internet service providers to resolve domain names into a real IP address that routers and switches understand. Since the DNS servers provided by ISPs are often slow and use the DNS servers to identify all sites that are visited, there is often scope for privacy concerns.
While Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 has already seen an incredible number of switches, the company says that people are not able to make those changes, particularly on mobile devices. Cloudflare says that it has worked with APNIC to offer its DNS service through 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1. Cloudflare’s DNS offers both DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS.
After being in public beta since last month, the app is now available for everyone and makes your Internet faster and more private. The company says that millions of websites rely on Cloudflare for performance and security. By getting more users on 1.1.1.1, it makes those sites faster. You can now download the ‘1.1.1.1: Faster & Safer Internet’ app on both Android and iOS for free.