Don't want your ISP (or the NSA) to see your DNS requests? Enable DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox

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Don't want your ISP (or the NSA) to see your DNS requests? Enable DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox

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It's not enabled by default (yet). And it's coming soon to Chrome as well.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-en ... n-firefox/
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Do you have it enabled in FF?
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Yes.
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Go here to confirm you are using DNS-over-HTTPS: https://1.1.1.1/help
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Android 9 (Pie) natively supports DNS-over-TLS, which accomplishes the same thing:

Instructions here: https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1 ... 1/android/
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I had to get rid of cloudflare on my phone. I kept having issues where nothing would resolve unless I restarted my phone. Eventually I tracked it down to cloudflare dns. As soon as I disabled it my issues went away.
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FYI Even though both of these secure DNS methods use Cloudflare by default, you can change to a different one like Quad Nine or Google.
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Here's a list of Privacy (non-logging) DNS over TLS and DNS over HTTPS servers:
https://dnsprivacy.org/wiki/display/DP/ ... +Resolvers
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