Re: This DNS over HTTP thing

[Jeroen Massar <jeroen () massar ch>]

On 2019-10-01 15:22, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 12:11:32PM +0200,
>  Jeroen Massar <jeroen () massar ch> wrote 
>  a message of 101 lines which said:
>
> >  - Using a centralized/forced-upon DNS service (be that over DoT/DoH
> >  or even plain old Do53
>
> Yes, but people using a public DNS resolver (of a big US corporation)
> over UDP is quite an old thing and nobody complained. I really wonder
> why there was so little reaction against OpenDNS or Google Public DNS
> and suddently a lot of outcry against DoH...

Those services the user decides on themselves.

It is not a default in the browser.

> > You might also want to look into this amazing thing called Tor if
> > you really want privacy.
>
> I know it, and use it and it is awfully slow. Telling to people who
> want privacy that they need to adopt the difficult and costly (in
> performance) solutions made for iranian opponents won't help to
> improve security.

Then Tor is not for your purpose indeed.

Use a VPN, or better switch ISP so that you do not keep paying an entity that you do not trust.

> > Noting that many ISPs are deploying both DoT and DoH next to Do53.
>
> Fact-checking: could you name some? (I do not know even one.)

https://www.as15600.net/

And there are many others who have announced it.

Greets,
 Jeroen