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Re:72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS se... by pickledcods on Saturday December 05, 2020 @11:26AM (#25315703)
I believe that Google pushed DoH to track your cross-site browsing. TLS hides your URL, and blockers can break adsense tracking and/or any other call-home backlinks.

Using DoH, especially one served by an advert company is just signing up to be their open book.

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Re:72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS se... by sp332 on Saturday December 05, 2020 @01:56PM (#25317213)
Chrome didn't change the resolver, though. It just enables DoH if it's on a whitelist of known DoH-capable resolvers. It doesn't send your data to Google unless you already used Google's DNS.
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