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Why not use DNS over HTTPS (DoH)?


Last update: 2018-10-26 DoH is not about protecting your DNS queries from peepers. That is a big lie.

Advocates of DoH stress that the transport encryption protects your DNS queries from peepers like your ISP or your network admin at work. This is a very good idea because DNS queries in clear text contain very interesting meta data about the sites you communicate with over the Internet. The public didn't care about this RFC until Mozilla announced that they implement this new protocol in Firefox for broad field testing in collaboration with Cloudflare.

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