DNS-over-HTTPS Will Eventually Roll Out in All Major Browsers, Despite ISP Opposition

' All major browsers -- including Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera,
Microsoft Edge, Vivaldi, Brave -- have plans to support DNS-over-HTTPS
(or DoH), a protocol that encrypts DNS traffic and helps improve a
user's privacy on the web. From a report:

The DoH protocol has been one of the year's hot topics. It's a
protocol that, when deployed inside a browser, it allows the browser
to hide DNS requests and responses inside regular-looking HTTPS
traffic. Doing this makes a user's DNS traffic invisible to
third-party network observers, such as ISPs. But while users love DoH
and have deemed it a privacy boon, ISPs, networking operators, and
cyber-security vendors hate it. A UK ISP called Mozilla an "internet
villain" for its plans to roll out DoH, and a Comcast-backed lobby
group has been caught preparing a misleading document about DoH that
they were planning to present to US lawmakers in the hopes of
preventing DoH's broader rollout. However, this may be a little too
late. ZDNet has spent the week reaching out to major web browser
providers to gauge their future plans regarding DoH, and all vendors
plan to ship it, in one form or another.'

-- source: https://it.slashdot.org/story/19/11/08/189243

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
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