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[–] Guidy@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

If it’s so great for Privacy, why does it support DNS over HTTPS?

Taking name resolution control away from the user and the OS is NOT a benefit to your privacy. Especially since bad actors can and do exploit DNS for data exfiltration.

(And yes, you can disable it.. FOR NOW.)

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 3 points 4 weeks ago

I don't see any inherent problem with the two things you say are problems: neither DoH, nor the idea that a browser can override default settings.

I'm not a fan of defaulting to Cloudflare, but this seems more like a case of picking your poison. Somebody's going to get a crack at the domains you're visiting, are they not? It seems better to encrypt these queries than to allow a middleman to intercept them.

Regarding override default system settings, is this really a problem? I prefer browsers that give people extra options, and I would find it worse if they suddenly took this option away.

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