Cloudflare launches 1.1.1.1 For Families with filter support

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Cloudflare launched its DNS service back in 2018 (on April 1) to the public promising a fast, private, and secure service. The company promised that 1.1.1.1 would be privacy-friendly, that it would not sell user data or use it for targeted advertising, and revealed that the service would never log full user IP addresses and erase logs every 24 hours. A recently published audit by independent auditing companyKPMG uncovered some minor issues but backed up Cloudflare's claims.

Yesterday, on April 1, Cloudflare announced an expansion of its DNS service called 1.1.1.1 for Families which adds new DNS Server IP addresses and filters to the service to block certain requests automatically. Users who used OpenDNS and some other DNS providers in the past may recall that these providers offered something very similar for quite some time already.

Filtering functionality was the number one request from home users according to Cloudflare and the main reason why 1.1.1.1 for Families was created.

1.1.1.1 For Families

1.1.1.1 for Families comes in two different versions: the first blocks known malware requests, the second malware and adult requests. Here is the information required to use the new DNS servers on your devices:

Malware Blocking Only

Primary DNS: 1.1.1.2
Secondary DNS: 1.0.0.2
IPv6: 2606:4700:4700::1112
IPv6: 2606:4700:4700::1002

Malware and Adult Content

Primary DNS: 1.1.1.3
Secondary DNS: 1.0.0.3
IPv6: 2606:4700:4700::1113
IPv6: 2606:4700:4700::1003

Cloudflare DNS without Filtering

Primary DNS: 1.1.1.1
Secondary DNS: 1.0.0.1
IPv6: 2606:4700:4700::1111
IPv6: 2606:4700:4700::1001

The filtering is automated at this point in time; Cloudflare plans to introduce management options in the coming months to whitelist or blacklist sites, schedule filters for certain times of the day, and more.

For now, the only option that you have to bypass filters, e,g. when a non-malware or non-adult site is blocked, is to switch the DNS service.
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