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How will DoH help "huge corporations... take control of the population"?
by creata 6y ago
How will DoH help "huge corporations... take control of the population"?
- userbinator 6y agoFirst they take the DNS queries. Then they start routing the rest of the traffic through their servers, while advertising how it's all "for your privacy and security", of course. There's another article on the front page about how these companies already wield immense power: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25802366 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25802366 To be clear, I'm not against the principles behind DoH, and think traffic going from the local network into the Internet benefits from encryption; I'm against how it's being implemented at the application-level and its subversive nature.
- creata 6y agoThat's fair enough, but in the short term, Cloudflare is more trustworthy (and tolerant of free speech!) than my ISP and government. Is there an initiative in which I have to trust none of these parties?
- heavyset_go 6y agoDNS-based ad blocking worked pretty well, and DoH breaks that.
- MacsHeadroom 6y agoYou can reroute DoH to your own resolver. If you have a trusted wildcard certificate on the device you want to reroute DoH for this will work 100% of the time. If you don't have a trusted wildcard cert on the device in question it usually will either not care or will fall back to unencrypted DNS.