Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> writes: > goli...@devuan.org wrote: > >> Just great! So how can we keep off this cloudflare thing? >> >> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/25/mozilla_turns_on_dns_over_https_by_default_for_usa/ > > "Another relevant question is whether further centralisation [SIC] of > the internet is, inherently, a bad thing."
This is a wrong question based on a false dichotomy in this article. It assumes users will always have to use some recursive resolver operated by some third party, hence, they can only chose between a) use the servers you got assigned in some environment "which may include public WiFi" ("Run your life!") b) use some "trusted DoH provider" (trusted by some other US company to be good enough for its users, that is) IOW, that uses will always have to provide a complete history of all their "web movement" to someone. But this is not the case. There's nothing which stops users from running their own, fully capable resolver locally[*] (or somewhere on a local network) and thus, not make a comprehensive browsing history available to any third party. And DoH prevents that. That Google (AFAIK) invented this is certainly just coincidence. [*] Except systemd-resolvd, of course, at that's (reportedly) a stub resolver to replace another stub resolver :->. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng