Firefox 143 for Android to introduce DoH
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Firefox 143 for Android to introduce DoH
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Re: Firefox 143 for Android to introduce DoH
#2This 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?
Re: Firefox 143 for Android to introduce DoH
#3What's the good DoH provider nowadays? I feel like cloud flare has some downsides in terms of centralization
Re: Firefox 143 for Android to introduce DoH
#4I wonder why DOH is in the intro described as getting activated by region. Is DoH now active globally for every region, on any (desktop) platform (Mac/Windows) ?
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#6This 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.
Re: Firefox 143 for Android to introduce DoH
#7DoH centralizes DNS traffic at a few DoH resolvers. Bad thing.
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#8What's the good DoH provider nowadays? I feel like cloud flare has some downsides in terms of centralization
Mullvad runs a privacy-oriented DoH service, which is free to use regardless of whether you use their VPN service.
Re: Firefox 143 for Android to introduce DoH
#9This 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?
Query statistics is valuable data you can sell. Client DNS queries are in that regard similar to search queries and a default search engine setting, you can sell that to the highest bidder. So browser makers are incentivized to implement their own resolver with its own set of DNS servers instead of just the system ones. Either because they want to sell those statistics themselves. Or because they want to protect their users from the statistics collection of the underlying OS resolver or ISP resolver.