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CloudFlare launched there one got one got one got one we're gonna call it 1.4 no one DNS service last year which promised to make your internet connection faster and more private for free now we already did a video talking about its benefits and why you might want to switch to it which you can check out here but since we released that video CloudFlare has launched an app that allows you to enable one dot on ios and android with a single button easy right everyone should just switch to it right well it might not be quite that simple speaking of simple today's video is brought to you by pulse way with pulse way you can remotely monitor manage and control all your Windows Mac and Linux machines from one app create your free account today at the link below so as a quick refresher the domain name system or DNS is kind of like a phonebook for the internet so just like when you tell your phone to call jay-z and it looks up and dials jay-z's number hey hey is this jay-z so yeah it's basically like that when you enter a website name in your browser the DNS resolver looks up the IP address and then connects you to the server now it's a touch more complicated but that's all we really need to know for now now by default most devices use your internet service providers DNS resolver but ISPs have been known to collect and sell data on their users to advertisers and in some countries block certain IP addresses from being accessed thankfully there are many DNS services available that can help you avoid those issues with better privacy better security and even better speed including Google's Public DNS Open DNS and of course cloud flares offering one done now usually in order to change your DNS resolver you have to go into your phone's network settings and change it manually and while on android 9.0 pi you can just change it on a system-wide level and forget about it on all previous versions of android and on iOS you have to change it for each and every Wi-Fi network that you connect to so that's the problem that CloudFlare is trying to solve with the one app on both Android and iOS it uses a VPN profile to automatically direct all DNS queries from your phone to 1.1.11 regardless of which Wi-Fi or even cellular network that you're connected to innovation like well I mean actually there have been apps to do the same thing for quite a while like the paid DNS override app on iOS and DNS change run Android however using a VPN profile to change your DNS resolver creates another problem particularly for people who use an actual VPN like private Internet access so you can't have 2 VPNs enabled at once that is not unless you want to create like a self-destructing VPN loop that could potentially collapse them very structure of the space-time continuum which means that you'll have to switch between using the 1 dot VPN and your actual VPN depending on whether you're prioritizing speed or privacy now as I mentioned if your phone is running Android 9.0 Pi this isn't an issue and you can follow the steps on screen to enable one dot as your default DNS resolver in your network settings so no app or VPN profile is required then you can simply toggle your VPN on and off as you normally would but then I mean hold on a second why would you even need a VPN then if 1 dot makes the internet faster and protects your privacy well about that it does protect your privacy compared to other DNS resolvers but one dot is not as private or secure as a real VPN like private Internet access it wasn't sure if I mentioned our sponsor private Internet access and video are you making sure I get that in there rather one dot is kind of like a DNS service delivered in a VPN wrapper so when you use it your DNS queries go through a VPN tunnel between your PC or phone and CloudFlare servers so no one except CloudFlare can see those series and then CloudFlare has committed to only keeping data logs for 24 hours after which they're purged unfortunately though using one dot your ISP your cell phone provider and the Wi-Fi network you're connected to can still see the sites that you visit with a true VPN both your DNS queries and your actual internet activity are hidden from everyone that is except the VPN company ok so a VPN is more private and secure than one daughter but using a VPN usually has a negative impact on your internet speed as it takes a bit longer for all that data to get routed through an extra loop and that's how one that makes its case CloudFlare says that their service is faster and more private than other DNS services across the board because they had already built this worldwide network of servers to provide their other web services like DDoS protection and while DNS pref shows that one dot is the fastest DNS resolver on average worldwide just remember your mileage may vary depending on your location and another reminder speeding up DNS resolution does make loading web pages feel snappier but it won't speed up actually downloading the data of the page so if your internet plan is just slow or there's a lot of network congestion or like if Cthulhu broke an underwater fiber line again then there's nothing one doc can do to help now let's look at our results so here in Vancouver BC one dot traded the top spot with Open DNS quad nine and ad guards DNS service with those four usually resolving in under ten milliseconds on a google pixel 3 that is an order of magnitude faster than some other dns providers and this would result in a noticeable improvement in page load times 1/100 of a second is a lot faster than a tenth then in our head-to-head test with two pixel threes running on the telus network one with one dot and one without our one dot phone in particular when we loaded up a site that we hadn't accessed recently or ever before almost always came out ahead as for our iPhone 10s Macs this one was consistently faster with CloudFlare zap enabled as well compared to just a vanilla tennis max so there you have it again your mileage may vary but in our testing one dot was able to improve our website loading responsiveness and for free both on Wi-Fi and when we were on the go so should you use cloud flares app on your phone sure most of the time you'll get a snappier browsing experience whether you're on Wi-Fi or mobile Internet and you'll gain a little bit more privacy while you're at it the only thing that we'd really like to see improved here is on Apple's side with iOS adding system-wide private dns capability so that we could use it in conjunction with a VPN but until then having to press this one button really it doesn't seem that hard speaking of hard how I feel whenever I talk about internet privacy and if you want the best check out private Internet access VPN PIAA hides your true IP address and allows you to bypass geo restrictions and censorship making you appear as though you're connecting from somewhere else you can use it on 5 devices at once with a single account they've got thousands of 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