Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Mozilla is urging Congress to reject the broadband industry's lobbying campaign against encrypted DNS in Firefox and Chrome.
The Internet providers' fight against this privacy feature raises questions about how they use broadband customers' Web-browsing data, Mozilla wrote in a letter sent today to the chairs and ranking members of three House of Representatives committees. Mozilla also said that Internet providers have been giving inaccurate information to lawmakers and urged Congress to "publicly probe current ISP data collection and use policies."
DNS over HTTPS helps keep eavesdroppers from seeing what DNS lookups your browser is making. This can make it more difficult for ISPs or other third parties to monitor what websites you visit.
"Unsurprisingly, our work on DoH [DNS over HTTPS] has prompted a campaign to forestall these privacy and security protections, as demonstrated by the recent letter to Congress from major telecommunications associations. That letter contained a number of factual inaccuracies," Mozilla Senior Director of Trust and Security Marshall Erwin wrote.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Monday November 04 2019, @10:22PM (4 children)
No thank you.
From TFS:
There. FTFY.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @10:58PM (3 children)
whom to allow and whom to forbid spying on its users. Not for a censor-in-the-middle, however much you personally love bondage and discipline.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by NotSanguine on Monday November 04 2019, @11:19PM (2 children)
Where did I say anything different? I own all the systems in my home and *I* choose to use a PiHole (and other mechanisms) to block/retard the ability of folks to track/serve ads to those systems.
What's more, *I* decide which DNS servers are used to resolve queries for me.
What was it you were blathering on about? I'm not clear what your beef is with DNSBLs [wikipedia.org], or why you think that Google (Chrome), Mozilla (Firefox) or anyone else should be able to decide which DNS servers are used to resolve names on *my* systems.
Please do expand upon this. I'm eager to hear how ceding my ability to control my own network traffic is somehow a desire to be abused.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 1) by zion-fueled on Tuesday November 05 2019, @02:36AM
I mean, you're right. DOH will take from dnscrypt which is using servers I set. If one has to run nothing its nice as an option but taking my system over by default is not cool.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Tuesday November 05 2019, @04:05AM
Grrr!
That should have read:
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr