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Re:Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver DNS feature is dange... by silvestrov on Sunday August 05, 2018 @07:00AM (#17690718)
> (This is a gross simplification, but it’s broadly true enough in most countries.)

Seems like you forget Europe and e.g. GDPR.

It would be a big no-no in Denmark: My bank has one division for normal accounts and another for mastercard. The 2 divisions are separate companies, so I have to sign a paper to allow the MasterCard division to know about my normal account.

So Danes have no hesitation giving out personal information as they know it’s protected by law. “We don’t sell your info” is redundant in Denmark.

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Re:Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver DNS feature is dange... by colde on Sunday August 05, 2018 @07:19AM (#17690763)
I wish that was the case. TDC (the largest danish telco) actually sold information about mobile users, including roaming users to VisitAarhus. Specifically, it was data about the locations of mobile users.

Danish article on the subject: https://www.version2.dk/artikel/tdc-saelger-data-mobilbruger...

So there is still plenty of reasons not to trust your ISP in Denmark and Europe in general.

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Re:Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver DNS feature is dange... by bjoli on Sunday August 05, 2018 @07:24AM (#17690779)
Telia did the same thing in Sweden some years ago. There are however ISPs who have a business model based on them having a very high profile in personal integrity politics (like Bahnhof), which I would feel more comfortable with thanany other DNSs
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Re:Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver DNS feature is dange... by Xylakant on Sunday August 05, 2018 @07:59AM (#17690888)
By wouldn’t you expect Bahnhof to offer a DoH-capable resolver for its customers then, that you could use in FF if you choose to enable the feature once it’s out of the experimental phase?
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Re:Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver DNS feature is dange... by jopsen on Sunday August 05, 2018 @09:45AM (#17691285)
What prevents them from selling aggregated DNS statistics?

For what was queried on their servers.

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