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> It is clear what Mozilla needs to do: Mozilla can and should revert the change and allow users to easily opt-in. I think it should be on by default. In my co
by codedokode 7y ago
> It is clear what Mozilla needs to do: Mozilla can and should revert the change and allow users to easily opt-in.
I think it should be on by default. In my country encrypted DNS makes it more difficult for the government to track what people watch and to block sites.
> And to select or enter the DoH provider instead of defaulting to Cloudflare.
You can enter any DNS server address in Firefox.
While I agree, that it is bad to concentrate all the world's DNS queries in the hands of an entity under US jurisdiction, not encrypting DNS is much worse currently. So Cloudflare and US government are the lesser evil for me.
Also, if there were volunteers running free DoH servers then Mozilla could choose one of them randomly instead of sending all queries to USA.
- saurik 7y agoWhy not install DoH system wide, then (the kind of change which is easy if tools like Firefox use the system APIs for this and very difficult if individual applications all reimplement DNS) instead of only doing it for Firefox?
- codedokode 7y agoBecause it is easier to embed it into a browser rather than persuade vendors of all major OSes (Windows, Mac, Android and thousand of Linux distributions) to add it. Also, even if a company like Microsoft adds it to Windows, they will add it only to they latest version and leave people on Windows XP, 7 and 8 without protection. Same with Google - they will add it only to the latest Android. Because commercial companies want you to buy new products, not to use the old one for a long time.