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Mozilla & Cloudflare #533

Open kradan opened 6 years ago

kradan commented 6 years ago

Document why Mozilla's's latest tracking features DNS over HTTPs (DoH) and Trusted Recursive Resolver(TRR) are dangerous and how to disable them:

Enter about:config in the address bar Search for network.trr Set network.trr.mode = 5 to completely disable it

Details: usejournal, hackernews

wh1t3fang commented 6 years ago

DNS over HTTPS is not the problem. Mozilla was running a limited study to test DNS over HTTPS and Trusted Recursive Resolver. Some people may be concerned about TRR using Cloudflare but you have to remember that this is a limited study that you have to opt into. Plus you would have to be using a beta version of Firefox to even be offered this study in the first place.
Riseup already has a recommendation that you should use Tor browser if you want to protect yourself. The thing is Firefox already has tons of ways that data leaks out that the Tor Browser team has worked very hard to patch. :) If you want to prevent someone easily being able to fingerprint you, you should use the Tor browser as it has several changes from the main Firefox upstream code.
Thanks for contributing :)