On: Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver DNS feature i...

[simias]

I host my own DNS resolver on a dedicated server, Firefox hijacking my DNS traffic without telling me is definitely not an improvement. It can be a nice feature in some situations but having it activated by default without explicit consent should be a big no-no.

I hate this mentality of "our users are complete idiots and we know what's good for them" (I call it the "Gnome" mentality).

[cptskippy → simias]

I am of the same opinion and this is an experimental feature turned off by default which is why there is no UI for it.

I am imagining that if it goes live the UI will probably be like the Search Engine configuration with a default you can easily change.

Still annoying to have to change and almost impossible to notice if it should change, but not as bad as it's being made out to be.