DNS Leak on iOS

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@C0nfuzed_AF

DigitalCourage doesn’t have enough servers in North America

DigitalCourage doesn’t has a single server outside of Germany. They’re a german NGO

@C0nfuzed_AF

A cloud-based solution is not the best solution in the use-case of what’s supposed to be a system-wide firewall, DNS “changer,” and ad-blocker.

Blokada Cloud was created to offer stable adblocking on ios again. This was made necessary by apple changing their ads framework. Blokada cloud for android is being pushed to the Google play store since that’s where our app got kicked out regularly. This does not affect v5 and its development.

@C0nfuzed_AF

whether you’ll implement a canary in case of search warrants

I’m really sorry to disappoint you here but the bloka AB is based in Sweden.
Hence Swedish jurisdiction applies not US jurisdiction or something similar.
There is no law which forces it to listen to it’s users hence such a warrant canary wouldn’t really serve any purpose - at least that’s my takeaway here
It might look good,
But it’d be pretty useless
As long as there’s no law forcing us to log anything, we can’t share anything
Sure… A warrant canary might look good and maybe make you “feel” better.
But it wouldn’t serve any purpose at all here. It’d just be a piece of text on a website with no meaning because nothing is connected to it
Welcome to Swedish legislation.

@C0nfuzed_AF

I’ve long waited to see Blokada VPN’s privacy policy, no logs policy

Here’s the privacy policy of blokada+

Privacy Policy

The underlying policy of Blokada VPN is that we want you to remain anonymous. We strongly believe in having minimal data retention because we want you to remain anonymous. However, in some situations we might process your personal data if you, for example, when you are making payments by Stripe or are sending an e-mail or reporting a problem. In those cases, we might process your personal data and the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and other data protection laws may apply to the pro…

And here are the ToS:

Terms of Service

Blokada Plus / Blokada Tunnel (VPN) is a service offered by Blocka AB (559198-8265) registered in Sweden. By using this service, you are agreeing to these terms. The service The service protects personal information with the use of encryption and masks user metadata by hiding the user’s IP address and replacing it with one of ours. This replacement address is shared with many other users, which not only protects each individual’s user data but also breaks the traceable chain between the user an…

@C0nfuzed_AF

Lastly, I have concerns regarding Blokada’s pricey VPN service that offers to tunnel traffic thru “Blokada’s” own encrypted DNS servers.

You seem to confuse something here.
Blokada+ ≠ Blokada Cloud.
Blokada cloud is part of Blokada+ but contrary to blokada cloud blokada+ also offers wireguard based VPN.
Here’s a quote on that.

@balboah

Blokada is funded purely by people like you, independent from any external investors. We’ve turned down many offers to sell data about our users. Blokada is also an ad-blocker, thus making advertisements to grow faster aren’t really an option for us.

Because of the rather limited options for growth and funding, we needs to optimize the expenses for providing a stable VPN service in as many locations as possible while still being in control.
By renting our first generation of servers, we can cut the up front expenses of buying and shipping hardware ourselves. In the long run however, owning our own hardware is something we aim for.

Rest assured that the server software and OS installed are managed by the Blokada team without any dependencies on 3rd parties.

Blokada cloud should not be confused with a VPN:

@balboah

I’m not sure if it was clarified yet but I’ll add that when using Blokada Plus there will be no interaction with Google DNS and you will be using the Blokada resolver dedicated to Plus users. This is the service that we expect privacy focused individuals such as yourself to use.

When using Blokada Cloud, queries that are not already cached will be resolved using Google DNS as described by @PrintableCharacter. Blokada Cloud focuses on ad-blocking with reliable performance, while still adding to privacy as you’re proxied through Blokada. But it doesn’t provide the privacy level of Blokada Plus, Blokada Cloud on its own is not a VPN service and shouldn’t be compared with VPN service providers.