Lu Wei wrote:
On 2020-2-26 10:40, Arlen Holder wrote:
Firefox to enable DNS-over-HTTPS by default to US users
https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/25/firefox-dns-https-default-united-states/


Firefox turns encrypted DNS on by default to thwart snooping ISPs
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/02/firefox-turns-encrypted-dns-on-by-default-to-thwart-snooping-isps/


I never really understood DNS' impact on privacy, where, I hope others
can
explain why this is a "good thing" for users of the Firefox browser on
Windows and what we can do with our "other" web browsers...

Firefox has abandoned XP. Aside from that, enabling DNS-over-HTTPS by
default to US users, not chinese users instead, is rather strange. It
makes me think of once a time Gtalk enabling encryption in English
version while doing plain text communication in chinese version. What
could that be for?


The Great Firewall will block access to the CloudFlare server.
The DNS address for the feature, should be easy to block.

Then the scheme won't work.

Turning it on by default, would mean the browser "would not
work out of the box". This is hardly a desirable result, however
well intentioned.

Paul