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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by dahfizz on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @12:25PM (#27132115)
Can you substantiate any of that? DoH is a feature of the browser that can be configured or disabled. Firefox even disabled DoH automatically if it detects you are using a custom DNS server which blocks "potentially malicious content"[1].

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https

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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by EvanAnderson on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @12:44PM (#27132326)
I'm not talking about the browser doing the name resolution. I'm talking about the opaque binary running inside the browser doing name resolution (either by way of DoH with a pinned certificate, or a custom name resolution protocol running over TLS). You won't get a say in what that opaque binary does (w/o modifying it).

Is anybody doing this now? I doubt it. Will somebody do it? Yeah. Definitely.

When the "browser" is an embedded device (like Google Chromecast devices hard-coded to use 8.8.8.8 for DNS) you'll have no configurability there either.

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