Re:What’s Next in Making Encrypted DNS-over-HTTPS the Default
by lovelearning on Saturday September 07, 2019 @12:37PM
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It is semi-voluntary and I don't think it's enforced for now - not heard of any end user getting punished by government for circumventing.
DoH is a simple solution that works for now. TorBrowser takes it to the other extreme - it's a good secure solution (I think), but not required as of now, and seen as slow with plugin and other usage restrictions. VPNs, proxies are not seen as good solutions because people prefer free to paid, and they are not as trusted as CF and Mozilla. Self-managed VPNs/proxies are not easy for the average person to setup.
Although I find it suspicious that there is just DNS filtering on your ISPs side and no IP filtering. Is it at the stage where it's not even enforced, semi-voluntary censorship by ISPs? Otherwise once the government starts checking compliance it will force IP-based filtering too, where DNS filtering circumvention is useless. And governments don't care about how broad the filtering is. Russia, for example, blocked half of the internet once in an attempt to censor Telegram.