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 Runaway1956 on Tuesday November 05 2019, @01:30AM (1 child)
The "default" DoH is 1.1.1.1 I don't see them doing advertising, but they do keep statistics. Given a choice between advertising and statistics, I think I'd rather see the advertising. Better to look up the list of DoH providers, and pick one of them at random, or pick one based on your preferred criteria.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 05 2019, @06:25PM
You will not be given such a choice. Statistics will always be kept, even if they say they won't. Especially if they say they won't.