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Yes, Google used the right approach here. They honor your DNS settings, and upgrade it if it's available. Firefox, on the other hand, plans to force all of thei
by rgbrenner 7y ago
Yes, Google used the right approach here. They honor your DNS settings, and upgrade it if it's available. Firefox, on the other hand, plans to force all of their users to trust Cloudflare by default.. and most users won't even know they made that change.
- gruez 7y ago[deleted]
- nuclear_eclipse 7y agoThe article itself says this.
- bsimpson 7y agoThe article?
- GeekyBear 7y ago>Firefox, on the other hand, plans to force all of their users to trust Cloudflare by default.. and most users won't even know they made that change. Mozilla has explicitly stated on their blog that they don't intend to make any change to a user's DNS settings without getting the user's consent. >When DoH is enabled, users will be notified and given the opportunity to opt out https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/09/06/whats-next-in-making-dns-over-https-the-default/ https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/09/06/whats-nex...
- judge2020 7y agoThis is something I really think should be opt-in, even if it's via a notification toast.
- topranks 7y agoThe problem is it’s just a banner with “ok” at the top, which clearly says “we’ve increased your privacy by (insert technical jumbo jumbo here).” As Bert Hubert pointed out, to most users it ends up looking like this: https://twitter.com/powerdns_bert/status/1123666707279695874?s=21 https://twitter.com/powerdns_bert/status/1123666707279695874...
- hvis 7y agoSo? It's clearly beneficial for the average user. As long as the people who don't want it can easily opt out, I'm not seeing the problem.