Big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS

Re:Big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS by GeekyBear on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @09:50PM (#21132790)

>Firefox, on the other hand, plans to force all of their users to trust Cloudflare by default.. and most users won't even know they made that change.

Mozilla has explicitly stated on their blog that they don't intend to make any change to a user's DNS settings without getting the user's consent.

>When DoH is enabled, users will be notified and given the opportunity to opt out

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Re:Big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS by topranks on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @03:37AM (#21134131)

The problem is it’s just a banner with “ok” at the top, which clearly says “we’ve increased your privacy by (insert technical jumbo jumbo here).”

As Bert Hubert pointed out, to most users it ends up looking like this:

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Re:Big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS by hvis on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @09:46AM (#21136339)

So? It's clearly beneficial for the average user.

As long as the people who don't want it can easily opt out, I'm not seeing the problem.

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Re:Big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS by judge2020 on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @10:51PM (#21133098)

This is something I really think should be opt-in, even if it's via a notification toast.

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