This new privacy tool would speed up your internet, too
Found on CNet News on Sunday, 01 April 2018
Announced Sunday, 1.1.1.1 aims to speed up your internet connection and make it impossible for your ISP to collect your browsing history. That's big news at a time when consumers are demanding more control of their data.
Cloudflare is working with third-party auditors at KPMG to examine their systems and guarantee they're not actually collecting your data.
It's promoting the implementation of a system called DNS over HTTPS, which encrypts that data about your web browsing as it flows online.
From reading just the headline you'd think that they would protect privacy by not resolving hostnames for tracker hosts, but it looks like they are just another DNS. Why they would want to use HTTPS (what will be very likely TCP based and thus much slower than UDP) instead of DTLS is another question.