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So.. in some future Mozilla might select a default DNS provider on your behalf.

Did you consider the upside?

Mozilla can negotiate on your behalf. Mozilla can obtain favorable terms of service, concessions in privacy, third-party reviews. Things you would never be able to negotiate for.

If you think of Mozilla as negotiating on your behalf, they have motive to protect you, and they have the leverage to get concessions from 3rd party vendors.

Think of Mozilla as using the collective bargaining power of it's user-base to get favorable terms. This could be a game changer.




It’s already happening: the DoH endpoint that Mozilla defaults to on the CF-Side has a stronger privacy agreement as per https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2018/06/01/improving-dns-pr...


CF is not a default. There is no default.

CF is a partner in studying an experimental feature


This replaces decentralised with centralised in the hope it would be a good idea if the choice is right. I'm sceptical, if nothing else because it would be easier to compromise or DoS one target than a lot of individual DNS providers.


I can't see myself ever supporting this as opt-out rather than opt-in.


Will it not improve security for the majority of Firefox users?




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