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DoH! Mozilla assures UK minister that DNS-over-HTTPS won't be default in Firefox for Britons

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Re: Own DNS server

Me too. I'll disable DoH when I upgrade to the Firefox that uses it. Not because I particularly distrust Cloudflare (they can't be anywhere near as bad as Google) but because it isn't going to be faster than running a caching server on my router that will serve 99% of my DNS requests more quickly than any external server.

Privacy wise a caching server doesn't buy you much though. You still have to forward somewhere. I figured out the three fastest servers and divide my requests among them, so each would only see a third of the sites I visit. Though for maximum privacy you should send them all to your ISP - since they're going to know what sites you visit regardless trying to hide your DNS requests from them is kind of stupid.

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