3 ms·
There are arguments against Mozilla's current DoH rollout. DNS should be an OS setting and it should not default to a single commercial company. Both are totall
by Faark 7y ago
There are arguments against Mozilla's current DoH rollout. DNS should be an OS setting and it should not default to a single commercial company. Both are totally valid and I hope be addressed as DoH matures.
Or do you mean nothing sinister in this OpenBSD move? Well, it is kind of ironic to downgrade Firefox defaults to unencrypted DNS, since the absence of any modern & encrypted DNS on OSes was likely the only reason Mozilla felt the need for the switch in the first place. And this move doesn't seem to address this underlying issue of unsafe defaults caused by OSes like OpenBSD and thus feels a lot like some "no, shut up, everything is fine" reaction to criticism.
- windexh8er 7y agoAgreed. But I do see it as very similar to preloaded/preselected search. We're numb to that feature of browsers and sometimes fail to remember we don't need them. In many regards DNS in the browser gives back control to the end user. As governments and service providers encroach DoH and DoT are leveling the playing field. Also keep in mind there are different modes DoH in Firefox can operate in. [0] Ultimately I welcome the feature and hope we see more not-for-profit options as defaults in Firefox. [0] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Trusted_Recursive_Resolver https://wiki.mozilla.org/Trusted_Recursive_Resolver