Has introduced a new service called 1.1.1.1 that claims to be a faster, safer way to use the internet. In a week of headlines that include finding out nearly every Facebook account has been scraped without consent, the announcement felt timely. The internet grows more and more hostile with every new scandal and hack.We had a conversation with the co-founder and COO at Cloudflare, Michelle Zatlyn, about why 1.1.1.1 was created, and why a safer internet is needed now more than ever.In what ways are users currently unprotected on the internet?Michelle Zatlyn: DNS is this underlying protocol that makes the internet work. It’s how consumers get online, but it isn’t inherently a protocol that had privacy baked-in from the beginning. When we created the internet forty years ago, it just wasn’t baked-in.What that means is that if you’re buying internet access from most internet service providers — there are some exceptions such as — but if you’re buying from Time Warner or Comcast or AT&T that have large market share across the United States, they can see what sites you’re going to. Even if you’re going over to a site over HTTPS, which is an encrypted site and a huge trend going on right now, they can see that they’re going to Cloudflare.com or YouTube or Facebook or any other site that people visit every day or every week. Your internet service provider can see the domain.
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