| I'm not sure I understood your argument, very likely due to my limited knowledge in this area. You say: > society needs a practical way to for parents to monitor and potentially filter what type of content their children are encountering online. I agree with you on this point. But how does Mozilla's initiative prevent parents from filtering what type of content their children are allowed to be exposed to online or asserting control over this activity? I would first argue that this is more than anything a responsibility of the parent - unsupervised internet browsing by children should not really be happening and no technology can save people (children included) from themselves/mistakes/curiosity/etc. as efficient as education can. If the children are too young they won't care that their browsing is filtered, if they are old enough to be knowledgeable about this kind of stuff they will likely find a way to circumvent filtering. Second, surely, Mozilla can make the DoH functionality optional and, together with other local access & filtering measures, you can probably put in place a system that works for this case. You're again correct that it’s easier to manage this at a network level, but private DNS doesn't automatically impede us to do so, albeit it forces our hands to do so differently if the user can't decide for himself when to use it. Third, if enough demand will appear for such a feature (i.e. to allow parents to filter browsing for children), I am confident that paid or even free solutions will emerge to address it. The way I see it, users should not concede control to browser vendors, especially if they are Google, but also if they are governments. I argue that we should trust our (democratic)governments with many things, but not with the guarantee that they will always work in the public interest. We need mechanisms to ensure they're always kept in check _before_ things go south. > If Mozilla or Google start shipping browsers that use their own DNS privacy resolvers, it’s a power play. That's quite true and a reasonable point that I think needs addressing in a meaningful way. What we should have is more user control. |