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Re:Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill ... by 29athrowaway on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @05:13PM (#23171901)
I have a firewall appliance at home.

One day I noticed that some of the stuff I blacklisted (mostly ads) started showing up again.

Why? Firefox's new DNS over HTTPS was bypassing all my firewall DNS rules.

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Re:Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill ... by WarOnPrivacy on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @08:41PM (#23173749)
> Firefox's new DNS over HTTPS was bypassing all my firewall DNS rules.

A misstep by Firefox, though it was done with genuine intent to safeguard users (as opposed to just being spun that way). Though they've walked it back it still needs to be opt-in or be trivially easy for average users to opt-out.

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