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#Surfshark dns leak manual
One could also argue, if you add a DNS manually you have good reason to do so and Surfshark is respecting your manual settings. No reason to panic over an allegedly leak just because the testing website like to see the name of a different DNS provider in the request header. It shows how committed the VPN provider is to protecting your online security and privacy. Surfshark, when checked for WebRTC leaks, resulted in no WebRTC leaks. WebRTC can have some great benefits, but it is also a fact that it can cause privacy leaks and can expose your IP address. If you are happy with Quad9, good for you. DNS Leak Of Surfshark WebRTC Leak Protection. If you are satisfied with Cloudflare, go for it. As soon as you accept any 3rd party service it's a matter of trust, where you are the only one who has to invest trust in that agreement because the other side remains in the dark and you just have to believe what they promise to you. Maybe your ISP DNS is much more secure than Cloudflare and VPN's together, who knows?! If you want to be really on the safe side you have to setup your own, private DNS server. The reason why leak test websites report **PANIC MODE - LEAK DETECTED** is because they identify a publicly known DNS provider. You either trust them or not, that they handle your request private and secure. There is no difference if you put your blind trust into Surfshark or any other VPN or Cloudflare, because at the end of the day you have zero insight what these DNS providers actually do with your request and how much you can trust them really. In that regard the "leak" is no leak if you use either DNS that respects privacy and make it more secure. You are not forced to use the VPN DNS, because it just does pretty much the same as Cloudflare or Quad9 or any other DNS service you trust. If you added 3rd party DNS to your system config because you trust them, then there is absolutely no need to change it. Here is how i see these "DNS leak" panic posts. Meanwhile other VPN enforce their DNS during connection non Reliant on that setting.Įxample of other VPN ( cut out the names so it wont break rule 1 ) offers a simple test to determine if you DNS requests are being leaked which may represent a critical privacy threat.
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#Surfshark dns leak windows
It seems like Surfshark sets their DNS leak protection so up that windows "Automatically" fetches the DNS settings being Reliant on that windows setting. The surfshark support is entirely unaware of this behavior and trys to fix this by hard setting a few different DNS this doesnt solve the issue.
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I hope this is one of the things that can get heavy improvement in the near future. Its sad to see that Surfshark is reliant on this, a few other VPN i tested can enforce their DNS even with a manually changed DNS.
![surfshark dns leak surfshark dns leak](https://www.top10vpn.com/images/2019/08/SURFSHARK-PRIVACY-min.png)
Mind you i edit the "real" adapter aka not the VPN network adapter. You sadly need to remove it with surfshark and put it back to "auto" and use your ISP DNS if your not connected to the VPN :/ If you have manually set up a Better or simply Privacy focussed DNS like Quad 9 or cloudflares DNS instead of Your ISP dns like i did ( and you usually should to circumvent censorship via DNS and logging via DNS and stuff )
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