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DNS over HTTPS

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The Danger:  There is no benefit for the home Internet user of Chrome or Firefox.  The danger is that all the sites you visit are being sent as a list and possible collected by a 3rd party.  If you are at home and you visit bitcoin mining web sites or read a lot of gun related articles, some 3rd party company can keep a list and turn that over to advertising or marketing firms, or worse yet, to an oppressive government authority depending on your country.The Danger:  There is no benefit for the home Internet user of Chrome or Firefox.  The danger is that all the sites you visit are being sent as a list and possibly collected by a 3rd party.  If you are at home and you visit bitcoin mining web sites or read a lot of gun related articles, some 3rd party company can keep a list and turn that over to advertising or marketing firms, or worse yet, to an oppressive government authority depending on your country.  Furthermore, although not a danger but an annoyance, this system can create delays as it takes longer to achieve DNS resolution on queries from your host.Unless you spend your time surfing questionable web sites or looking at things that would embarrass you if it were to become public and you are doing all of this not at home, but on public wifi where other users of the same wifi could potentially be sniffing your data packets, this DNS over HTTPS is really just a big scam to data mine.  Mozilla Firefox the organization and Google for their part in adding this to Chromium should be called out on this and held legally accountable in civil court as they implement this data mining DNS scam by default and without user consent.Unless you spend your time surfing questionable web sites or looking at things that would embarrass you if it were to become public and you are doing all of this not at home, but on public WiFi where other users of the same WiFi could potentially be sniffing your data packets, this DNS over HTTPS is really just a big scam to data mine.  Even still any hacker sniffing packets on public WiFi doesn't need to see your DNS queries to do harm.  Mozilla Firefox the organization and Google for their part in adding this to Chromium should be called out on this and held legally accountable in civil court as they implement this data mining DNS scam by default and without user consent.
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