An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla said today that “no money is being exchanged to route DNS requests to Cloudflare” as part of the DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) feature that is currently being gradually enabled for Firefox users in the US. The browser maker has been coming under heavy criticism lately for its partnership with Cloudflare. Many detractors say that by using Cloudflare as the default DoH resolver for Firefox, Mozilla will help centralize a large chunk of DNS traffic on Cloudflare’s service. Critics of this decision include regular users, but also ISP-backed lobby groups, according to a recent report citing leaked documents. But according to Mozilla, they’re not getting paid for this, and are only doing it for Firefox user privacy.
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