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Re: Missing Tor Button
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Mark H Weaver |
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Re: Missing Tor Button |
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Sun, 03 Nov 2019 10:41:17 -0500 |
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Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:
> One possible solution would be to enable DNS-over-HTTPS, which I believe
> is supported by IceCat-68 although it's disabled by default. See:
>
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https
>
> Incidentally, I think that a case can be made that enabling this is a
> sensible default for most users, even when not using Tor, because it
> prevents the user's ISP from snooping on and hijacking DNS lookups.
> Whereas most users have little or no choice about their ISP, we can
> choose a default DNS-over-HTTPS provider that commits to a strong
> privacy policy. Also, the provider is user-configurable. However,
> I acknowledge that any such decision would be controversial.
Incidentally, I just learned that the largest ISPs in the US are
currently fighting hard to prevent the roll-out of DNS-over-HTTPS.
Here's an article by the Electronic Frontier Foundation on this issue:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/dns-over-https-will-give-you-back-privacy-congress-big-isp-backing-took-away
Mark
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