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Firefox DoH easily works with DNSCryptProxy. https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy/wiki/Local-DoH https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy/wiki/Local-DoH

by kd913 6y ago

Firefox DoH easily works with DNSCryptProxy. https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy/wiki/Local-DoH https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy/wiki/Local-DoH You can easily set it up to contact that, but enable some exclusions for specific domains if you wish to fallback to pihole. It's probably not that efficient anyway to be using pihole's filtering in Firefox compared with just ublock origin anyway.

3np 6y ago
I wasn't aware of this part of dnscrypt-proxy, thanks for sharing. I find network-level blocking and browser extensions work complementary. In a broader sense, I guess the larger concerns is malware and trackware on various devices where DoH is used maliciously. Especially smartphones. Granted there is nothing stopping them today, but the normalization of DoH will put it in arms reach for everyone.
cptskippy 6y ago
> It's probably not that efficient anyway to be using pihole's filtering in Firefox compared with just ublock origin anyway. Pihole operates at the network level. It can block Windows Telemetry, ads on your Roku, smart devices trying to phone home, etc. Any guest devices that connect to your network also benefit without you having to install blockers on them. It's not a replacement for ublock, it's used in conjunction with it.
- josephcsible 6y ago
  Your Pi-hole working on other people's devices is a bad thing. After all, there's nothing stopping you from configuring your Pi-hole to filter political content you disagree with instead of just ads, trackers, and malware.
  - cptskippy 6y ago
    > Your Pi-hole working on other people's devices is a bad thing. No, it isn't. Never mind the fact that that isn't how PiHole works, I'm perfectly within my right to control how my home network functions.
- kd913 6y ago
  Yea, I understand that which is why I keep pihole. My argument though is in the context of Firefox, in which case the benefit of the pihole bit is dubious when you can install ublock origins. Pihole doesn't provide much additional benefits that can't be achieved with ublock origin advanced filters. Granted someone could argue what would be the benefit of using the dnscrypt-proxy at that point. In that context, you benefit from better privacy (DNS requests aggregated) and caching benefits.

by kd913 6y ago

3np 6y ago

I wasn't aware of this part of dnscrypt-proxy, thanks for sharing. I find network-level blocking and browser extensions work complementary. In a broader sense, I guess the larger concerns is malware and trackware on various devices where DoH is used maliciously. Especially smartphones. Granted there is nothing stopping them today, but the normalization of DoH will put it in arms reach for everyone.

cptskippy 6y ago

> It's probably not that efficient anyway to be using pihole's filtering in Firefox compared with just ublock origin anyway. Pihole operates at the network level. It can block Windows Telemetry, ads on your Roku, smart devices trying to phone home, etc. Any guest devices that connect to your network also benefit without you having to install blockers on them. It's not a replacement for ublock, it's used in conjunction with it.

josephcsible 6y ago
Your Pi-hole working on other people's devices is a bad thing. After all, there's nothing stopping you from configuring your Pi-hole to filter political content you disagree with instead of just ads, trackers, and malware.
- cptskippy 6y ago
  > Your Pi-hole working on other people's devices is a bad thing. No, it isn't. Never mind the fact that that isn't how PiHole works, I'm perfectly within my right to control how my home network functions.
kd913 6y ago
Yea, I understand that which is why I keep pihole. My argument though is in the context of Firefox, in which case the benefit of the pihole bit is dubious when you can install ublock origins. Pihole doesn't provide much additional benefits that can't be achieved with ublock origin advanced filters. Granted someone could argue what would be the benefit of using the dnscrypt-proxy at that point. In that context, you benefit from better privacy (DNS requests aggregated) and caching benefits.