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by CJefferson 2541 days ago
Knowing better than the owners is a matter of tradeoff.

There are whole isps and even countries (including the UK shortly) which mess with DNS requests. Helping the millions of users who are in that situation, and don't even know what D Sits, seems like a net good. As you say, experts can choose to disable it.

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> As you say, experts can choose to disable it.

As long as they can. The problem with these ideas is that it can get increasingly difficult to work around them. How many hoops you have to jump through to pcap your own software on your own machines now that certificate pinning is becoming popular? What when someone will have the bright idea of implementing certificate pinning for DoH inside browsers, "because security"?

(I could live with the choice between having to somehow acquire Chrome Enterprise Edition vs. switching to Firefox, to have a browser I can control. I'm worried now that Firefox might be turning into Chrome, though.)

> including the UK shortly

If you're implying the porn filter, no, the porn filter has been shelved 'indefinitely' because a) it's against EU law, b) it was May's personal project (she pushed heavily for it when she was Home Secretary, and it became a thing under her PM-ship).