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We think that’s a terrible idea: handing over government documents to random sites is a huge privacy risk.\n\nThis new setting workarounds those verification flows via DNS tricks. It’s available today to all users, including free accounts.\n\nWe’re curious how the HN community feels about this. Is it the right way to protect privacy online, or will it just provoke regulators to push harder?\n\nhttps:\u002F\u002Fnextdns.io",{"problem":50,"audience":56,"pricing":65,"motivation":69,"time_to_build":9,"stack":73,"openness":74,"stage":75,"team_size":74},{"value":51,"source":52,"evidence":53},"Sites forcing users to upload IDs or selfies for age verification","maker",[54],{"id":55},"post",{"value":57,"source":58,"evidence":59},"NextDNS users wanting to avoid ID uploads to adult sites","inferred",[60,61],{"id":55},{"id":62,"by":63,"text":64},"44937007","pogue","Hey @nextdns team. I'm a long time customer of NextDNS. I've been using your service for a few years now, but it seems a large amount of your primarily offered services &…",{"value":66,"source":52,"evidence":67},"Available to all users including free accounts",[68],{"id":55},{"value":70,"source":52,"evidence":71},"Handing government documents to random sites is a privacy risk",[72],{"id":55},[],"unknown","launched",{"praise":77,"objections":101,"requests":128,"questions":151,"alternatives":166},[78,90],{"value":79,"source":80,"evidence":81},"Privacy-protective idea worth doing","commenter",[82,86],{"id":83,"by":84,"text":85},"44934217","freedomben","It may not be effective in the long term, but I think it's very much worth doing. The privacy nightmare of uploading government docs is appalling and should be resisted by all…",{"id":87,"by":88,"text":89},"44935881","Ms-J","Thank you for doing this! You are helping spread freedom. If everyone were to create more tools like this, it would shape the future to our liking.",{"value":91,"source":80,"evidence":92},"Long-time users value the service",[93,97],{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},"44934239","syntaxing","Easily one of the best $20 I spend a year. Makes iOS so much more usable and I really love supporting the vision of the developers from NextDNS",{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"44935966","luxurytent","I don't have a strong opinion here, but I did want to say thank you for your service! I was previously running a pi-hole but switched my family and my household to NextDNS. Great…",[102,109,116],{"value":103,"source":80,"evidence":104},"Proxying traffic raises privacy and trust concerns",[105],{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"44937411","1vuio0pswjnm7","This sounds like a company using DNS to direct _other_ peoples' web traffic through _their_ proxies. Cloudflare started this way. That's why signing up for Cloudlfare requires…",{"value":110,"source":80,"evidence":111},"May be illegal in the UK to promote circumvention",[112],{"id":113,"by":114,"text":115},"44934243","perihelions","As a remark, not a criticism, such a deliberate promotion is probably illegal in the UK market, > \"But Ofcom says platforms required to introduce \"highly effective\" methods to…",{"value":117,"source":80,"evidence":118},"Product seems abandoned with poor support and outdated blocklists",[119,123,124],{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"44937643","bunnyfoofoo","Do not promote or use NextDNS, it's essentially abandoned. You will not get any support from the developer when something breaks, and it will break. I tried for a year to contact…",{"id":62,"by":63,"text":64},{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"44937945","import","Are you guys still active? I don’t remember how many of my questions went unanswered in the help forums, later switched to self hosted adguard.",[129,144],{"value":130,"source":80,"evidence":131},"Explain how the DNS trick works",[132,136,140],{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"44936048","rany_","How does this \"DNS trick\" work? That to me is a much more interesting detail.",{"id":137,"by":138,"text":139},"44937019","cedws","I love NextDNS. Can you explain what exactly the DNS tricks are and where they do\u002Fdon’t work?",{"id":141,"by":142,"text":143},"44934182","Imustaskforhelp","I am a user of nextdns and okay, this is really neato team! I find this really interesting. If I may ask, what are the dns tricks, is there a blog post about what you added, I am…",{"value":145,"source":80,"evidence":146},"Offer redirect feature for other domains",[147],{"id":148,"by":149,"text":150},"44938314","blissofbeing","If you are already building a proxy network to handle this can you please implement redirects? I would love to redirect x.com to xcancel.com by just setting my DNS. I would pay…",[152,159],{"value":153,"source":80,"evidence":154},"Where is the setting configured",[155],{"id":156,"by":157,"text":158},"44933809","paradox460","Where is the setting configured? I just looked through my admin page and didn't see any switch for it",{"value":160,"source":80,"evidence":161},"Does this create liability for sites required to check ID",[162],{"id":163,"by":164,"text":165},"44936118","Telemakhos","Does this create any new liability for the sites that are legally required to check ID?",[167,178,182],{"value":168,"source":80,"evidence":169},"VPNs",[170,174],{"id":171,"by":172,"text":173},"44935045","pyuser583","I'm a parent, and I try to keep my kids from the Internet in general, but adult parts in particular. VPN's are great for this. Just install the VPN, have it block access to adult…",{"id":175,"by":176,"text":177},"44936864","rendaw","\"Under no circumstances should you use Mullvad VPN (https:\u002F\u002Fmullvad.net\u002Fen), available for 5Eur\u002Fmo - also payable in Bitcoin, to avoid our age verification checks!\"",{"value":179,"source":80,"evidence":180},"AdGuard 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