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Re: Firefox 143 for Android to introduce DoH

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Post by qiine » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 1:46 PM UTC

nemomarx wrote: post #3

What's the good DoH provider nowadays? I feel like cloud flare has some downsides in terms of centralization

I like quad9

Re: Firefox 143 for Android to introduce DoH

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Post by LiamPowell » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 1:46 PM UTC

seanieb wrote: post #6

LiamPowell wrote: post #2

This doesn't address why this needs to be built in to the browser when Android already does DoH by itself. I assume there's a reason, does anyone know what it is?

Privacy.

Why is DoH in the browser more private than DoH in the OS?

Re: Firefox 143 for Android to introduce DoH

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Post by kattagarian » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 1:46 PM UTC

neworder56 wrote: post #5

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> If you don't like people seeing your history on the web, maybe think twice about what you do. Maybe you are the problem.

Thanks for your input, google.

Re: Firefox 143 for Android to introduce DoH

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Post by nemomarx » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 1:47 PM UTC

neworder56 wrote: post #5

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"if you have nothing to hide" sure sure. show us your history please

Re: Firefox 143 for Android to introduce DoH

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Post by idiotsecant » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 1:48 PM UTC

neworder56 wrote: post #5

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Re: Firefox 143 for Android to introduce DoH

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Post by 63stack » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 1:48 PM UTC

neworder56 wrote: post #5

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Please post your browsing history from your past 14 days to back up your insane hot take.

Re: Firefox 143 for Android to introduce DoH

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Post by DetroitThrow » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 1:51 PM UTC

idiotsecant wrote: post #15

neworder56 wrote: post #5

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Kind of wish brand new accounts would get auto-banned if they get comments flagged within a certain timeframe of their creation.

Re: Firefox 143 for Android to introduce DoH

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Post by add-sub-mul-div » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 1:52 PM UTC

LiamPowell wrote: post #12

seanieb wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Privacy.

Why is DoH in the browser more private than DoH in the OS?

It's not Google. My heuristic is that the bigger the tech giant the more sophisticated, indirect, and obfuscated the sharing/selling of data.

Re: Firefox 143 for Android to introduce DoH

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Post by DetroitThrow » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 1:53 PM UTC

LiamPowell wrote: post #12

seanieb wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Privacy.

Why is DoH in the browser more private than DoH in the OS?

It's all about whether you trust the OS to not track you when doing DoH at that level. In both mobile browser ecosystems, I can see why users of a browser would prefer the independent browser to do the DoH themselves, rather than leave it to the OS.

Re: Firefox 143 for Android to introduce DoH

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Post by miyuru » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 1:53 PM UTC

nemomarx wrote: post #3

What's the good DoH provider nowadays? I feel like cloud flare has some downsides in terms of centralization

For Germany/EU there is ffmuc: https://social.ffmuc.net/@freifunkMUC/114087819103432120

Hopefully we will see more regional DOH providers instead of centralized ones.