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Yes, Google used the right approach here. They honor your DNS settings, and upgrade it if it's available. Firefox, on the other hand, plans to force all of their users to trust Cloudflare by default.. and most users won't even know they made that change.

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>Firefox, on the other hand, plans to force all of their users to trust Cloudflare by default.. and most users won't even know they made that change.

Mozilla has explicitly stated on their blog that they don't intend to make any change to a user's DNS settings without getting the user's consent.

>When DoH is enabled, users will be notified and given the opportunity to opt out

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/09/06/whats-nex...

This is something I really think should be opt-in, even if it's via a notification toast.

The problem is it’s just a banner with “ok” at the top, which clearly says “we’ve increased your privacy by (insert technical jumbo jumbo here).”

As Bert Hubert pointed out, to most users it ends up looking like this:

https://twitter.com/powerdns_bert/status/1123666707279695874...

So? It's clearly beneficial for the average user.

As long as the people who don't want it can easily opt out, I'm not seeing the problem.

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The article itself says this.

The article?

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