It was founded by the Manhattan district attorney and the city of London police force (https://globalcyberalliance.org/history/) and IBM. I know that they say they are now reincorporated as a nonprofit in Switzerland but I find it suspicious that they don’t mention their history on their webpage, the Wikipedia entry doesn’t have a history section and the Global Cyber Alliance doesn’t have a Wikipedia entry either.
I might be paranoid but all this seems weird to me and I don’t trust them.
Please know this service will be ending next month.
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2026/9/3/shutting-down-our-public-encrypted-dns-servers-and-sponsoring-quad9-instead/
Well crud. Thanks for the heads-up. First I’ve heard.
Sounds like Quad9 doesn’t actually do ad blocking, so that’s not much of a replacement.
Quad9 is a crap choice though 😥
Why?
It was founded by the Manhattan district attorney and the city of London police force (https://globalcyberalliance.org/history/) and IBM. I know that they say they are now reincorporated as a nonprofit in Switzerland but I find it suspicious that they don’t mention their history on their webpage, the Wikipedia entry doesn’t have a history section and the Global Cyber Alliance doesn’t have a Wikipedia entry either.
I might be paranoid but all this seems weird to me and I don’t trust them.