Firefox turns encrypted DNS on by default to thwart snooping ISPs

[theprizerevealed]

Firefox turns encrypted DNS on by default to thwart snooping ISPs

US-based Firefox users get encrypted DNS lookups today or within a few weeks.

arstechnica.com

This seems to be good news. But the commenter seems to offer some very good ideas. Your thoughts?
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[velocityg4]

Interesting. I'm curious if I set my router to a DNS which offers encryption. If all DNS lookups are automatically encrypted or if encryption is something separate to turn on in browsers.

I'm just curious as I've been using Google DNS servers for years now with my router. Not for privacy by any means. Their DNS servers are just the most responsive DNS servers in my area. Slightly beating out my ISP's default.

I'm not sure how this could be a bad thing except for the bottom line of an ISP.

Although this seems destined for PRSI. Had to edit out my PRSI take when I noticed it wasn't PRSI.

 

[bogdanw]

Scripts to install/uninstall Cloudflare's DNS over HTTPS (DoH) client on macOS
https://github.com/b0gdanw/cloudflared
Edit: dnscrypt-proxy https://github.com/b0gdanw/dnscrypt-proxy-macos