“Cloudflare, Apple, and Fastly have co-designed and proposed a new DNS standard to tackle ongoing privacy issues associated with DNS,” reports ZDNet. Cloudflare calls it “a practical approach for improving privacy” that “aims to improve the overall adoption of encrypted DNS protocols without compromising performance and user experience…” Third-parties, such as ISPs, find it more difficult to trace website visits when…
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DNS Over HTTPS: Not As Private As Some Think?
Long-time Slashdot reader UnderAttack writes:
DNS over HTTPS has been hailed as part of a “poor mans VPN”. Its use of HTTPS to send DNS queries makes it much more difficult to detect and block the use of the protocol. But there are some kinks in the armor. Current clients, and most current DoH services, do not implement the optional passing option,…
Mozilla To Add Second DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) Provider in Firefox
Mozilla has announced that NextDNS would be joining Cloudflare as the second DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) provider inside Firefox. From a report: The browser maker says NextDNS passed the conditions imposed by its Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) program, and can now be added as a second option for DoH inside Firefox. These conditions include (1) limiting the data NextDNS collects from the DoH…
Microsoft Announces Plan To Support DoH In Windows
New submitter Shad0wz writes: Microsoft’s Core Network team just announced they plan on supporting DoH in the Windows resolver. In the blog post, the company writes: Providing encrypted DNS support without breaking existing Windows device admin configuration won’t be easy. However, at Microsoft we believe that “we have to treat privacy as a human right. We have to have end-to-end cybersecurity…
Comcast Argues ‘We’ve Never Sold Customers’ Data’
An anonymous reader quotes MediaPost: Faced with a new controversy related to online privacy, Comcast said this week that it doesn’t draw on information about the sites broadband users visit for advertising or targeting. The company said Thursday that it deletes information every 24 hours about the domain names people navigate to online. “Millions of Comcast customers look up billions of…