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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday February 26 2020, @02:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the and-everyone-else-on-the-network dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Firefox will start switching browser users to Cloudflare's encrypted-DNS service today and roll out the change across the United States in the coming weeks.

"Today, Firefox began the rollout of encrypted DNS over HTTPS (DoH) by default for US-based users," Firefox maker Mozilla said in an announcement scheduled to go live at this link Tuesday morning. "The rollout will continue over the next few weeks to confirm no major issues are discovered as this new protocol is enabled for Firefox's US-based users."

DNS over HTTPS helps keep eavesdroppers from seeing what DNS lookups your browser is making, potentially making it more difficult for Internet service providers or other third parties to monitor what websites you visit. As we've previously written, Mozilla's embrace of DNS over HTTPS is fueled in part by concerns about ISPs monitoring customers' Web usage. Mobile broadband providers were caught selling their customers' real-time location data to third parties, and Internet providers can use browsing history to deliver targeted ads.

Wireless and wired Internet providers are suing the state of Maine to stop a Web-browsing privacy law that would require ISPs to get customers' opt-in consent before using or sharing browsing history and other sensitive data. The telecom companies already convinced Congress and President Trump to eliminate a similar federal law in 2017.

Also at:
Mozilla Blog
The Register

Previously:
Firefox Begins Enabling DNS-over-HTTPS for Users


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  • (Score: 2) by legont on Thursday February 27 2020, @04:18AM (2 children)

    by legont (4179) on Thursday February 27 2020, @04:18AM (#963312)

    I am aware that ISP could mine unencrypted traffic. My comment was mostly targeted at folks who, it appears, did not like 1.1.1.1 itself so encrypting would not help.
    I hoped that somebody would reply with a trusted DNS server and explain why he thinks it is better.

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  • (Score: 2) by vux984 on Friday February 28 2020, @06:12PM (1 child)

    by vux984 (5045) on Friday February 28 2020, @06:12PM (#964229)

    I'd say it's correct of them to be suspicious of mozilla & cloudflare's deal for forward all dns traffic to cloudflare. Very little in life is free, and a good deal often isn't.

    Although if you research the deal, it appears to be on the up and up. And that cloudflare has committed to mozilla and the end users that it isn't going to do anything to commercialize or resell the DOH data. I personally am satisified by it. Although I personally have no issue with using my home or office ISP for DNS either. (Although i don't necessarily feel the same when I'm mobile.)

    As for alternatives...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_recursive_name_server [wikipedia.org]

    There's a column for which are doing DoH. I personally don't really endorse any of them over the others. I think google has enough data without giving them more. AdGaurd and Quad9 at first blush look like they might be suitable alternatives that I'd consider but I am not really familiar with either. And as i said, I don't have an issue with the mozilla cloudflare deal.

    • (Score: 2) by legont on Friday February 28 2020, @10:46PM

      by legont (4179) on Friday February 28 2020, @10:46PM (#964391)

      Thanks. I have similar feelings except that I don't want my ISP to handle my DNS queries. It's not necessarily because I don't trust them. They might be forced to reveal my activities and I simply want to be a smaller target. The office is similar.

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