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Re:Personal VPN Services are Snake-Oil by pc86 on Sunday April 14, 2024 @04:03PM (#40033980)
Encrypted DNS resolvers aren't trivial[0] for the ~99% of people who don't even know what they are, though.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

Re:Personal VPN Services are Snake-Oil by bhaney on Sunday April 14, 2024 @04:08PM (#40034014)
Doesn't Firefox default to eDNS these days? I don't think it can get much more trivial than that
Re:Personal VPN Services are Snake-Oil by LaLaLand122 on Sunday April 14, 2024 @04:24PM (#40034145)
In the UK, at least, it isn't the default (because of "the children"/"terrorism"). But it's still just a setting in Firefox/Chrome to change (and I guess in Edge too).
Re:Personal VPN Services are Snake-Oil by gruez on Sunday April 14, 2024 @04:39PM (#40034279)
Changing the "secure dns" option on their phone/computer is probably easier than installing a VPN app, tbh.