Comcast, Mozilla strike privacy deal to encrypt DNS lookups in Firefox

Re:Comcast, Mozilla strike privacy deal to encrypt DNS looku... by the8472 on Thursday June 25, 2020 @05:42PM (#23646085)

You have a contractual relation with your ISP and they're in your jurisdiction so at least in theory you have legal recourse.

Advocating for ESNI on the other hand means argueing for more centralization towards entities which are far more removed from you where you have little recourse. So as far as incentives go they may be more beholden to some law enforcement agency than you the non-customer.

There are difference, but it does not appear to be an obvious improvement to me.

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Re:Comcast, Mozilla strike privacy deal to encrypt DNS looku... by wrkronmiller on Thursday June 25, 2020 @09:22PM (#23647796)

I think you bring up good points but your takeaway is 180 off.

Different jurisdiction means less likely to be answerable to your local government should they be oppressive.

The fact you don't have a contractual relationship with a CDN is a good thing because it becomes trivial simply to stop using them, should the need arise. Don't like Cloudflare? block them. Your choice of websites will be reduced greatly but you still have an operational internet connection.

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