Mozilla requires that a number of data protection measures be put in place for all their DoH providers in order to get this Mozilla “seal of approval”. For this reason, Mozilla is working with “trusted DNS providers”, specifically Cloudflare and NextDNS. DoH is an attempt to encrypt this information to improve privacy. Among other things, Mozilla wants to hamper the ability of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who monitor their customers’ Internet usage and who track this kind of data for advertising purposes.Īlthough it will be more difficult for third parties to see DNS lookups with DoH enabled, the websites will still be visible to the DNS server Firefox connects to. Mozilla wants to activate DNS via HTTPS (DoH), which is a new standard that encrypts the part of internet traffic that is normally sent in plain text over an unencrypted connection. This enables others to see which websites you visit, even if your communication with the website itself is encrypted using the HTTPS protocol. That is, until today, when Firefox launched a new feature, which encrypts these requests by default in all US-based Firefox browsers. And by default, none of this is encrypted. This is done every day, billions of times a day, in all web browsers. When typing an Internet address into your web browser’s omnibox, the request to access the desired website gets transmitted to the DNS provider (Domain Name Service), which then converts the request into an IP address.
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