Firefox: You can trust us but not them. ~ I updated Firefox and they popped up this message. They now intercept Domain Name Server (DNS) requests. When a URL goes in the address bar, they see where we go? But I don't know these people. Should we trust them with our internet use history?

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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Idc what they see, it's the money they make off me to use for whatever politics and agenda they might have that I'm concerned about.

[–]dissidentrhetoric 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

use vivaldi

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Secure DNS is a good thing, but using it from a DNS server that you don't trust 100% is seriously dangerous.

You are putting your secret letter into a safe, then shipping it out to someone to who can open the safe, read your letter, put a reply in the safe and ship it back. Your letter being locked in a safe secures it for travel, but the person you sent it too and allowed to open the safe, can copy every letter you sent, then sell that to people who would also buy it from other other possible people you might send one to. They put it together, ensure they all match up from coming from you. Then you have government level spying.....now a for profit industry anyone can buy.

[–]scornedandsedated 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

They are going to be bored watching me go to "latextorturedungeon.com" thousands of times a week.

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I don't use Firefox but if some company wants to waste time looking at my crazy ass search history they are going to be dissapointed. Besides I use fake ID's everywhere I go and block ads.

[–]neolib 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

From looking at DNS requests they can only construct a history of domains you requested (browsed that is), not the whole URL history.

[–]ID10T 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

You can disable but it would seem to give quite a bit of protection to use it. More info:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/firefox-announces-new-partner-in-delivering-private-and-secure-dns-services-to-users/

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

These links were helpful. I learned that Firefox, by default, sends the web addresses we visit to Cloudflare. They are given "the ability to see users' queries." Because I have turned away from sin, I have nothing to hide, so it doesn't really matter for me. But since Cloudflare already has so much power and control over the internet, I disabled DNS over HTTPS.

[–]brimshae 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Mozilla has investigated Mozilla and Mozilla has determined you can totally trust Mozilla.

[–]ID10T 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Well sure it's their partner but if you're not using a VPN, your ISP and anyone on the wifi network you're connected to can see all of your requests. They can't see the request data over SSL, but can see the URLs. So use a VPN if you're concerned about privacy.

Your ISP records all your requests and most likely sells your data to advertising targeting companies.

https://www.privacypolicies.com/blog/isp-tracking-you/

[–]brimshae 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Weird deflex, but ok. Tell me something I haven't heard from the 9,001 ads for Nord VPN that run every day.