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>> People just run a local resolver that’s support’s these things.

Nowhere do “people just run a local resolver”. Grandma and aunty Beryl certainly don’t, nor does any other ordinary person. If you want secure DNS you have to build it in to the browser.

Only systems people think that this is the sort of thing that ordinary people do.



Does Grandma have a small WiFi router that her cable modem is plugged into? Well that device provides local DNS for her.


Not true. In the default case, Grandma's wifi router is just passing along -- via DHCP -- the IP address of the cable company's DNS resolver to Grandma's computer. Which the wifi router itself probably obtained via DHCP or a similar mechanism from the modem. This is in no sense a "local DNS resolver."

If Grandma has a grandchild that knows how to set up a PiHole, it's a different story. But that's certainly not the majority of Grandmas or the majority of wifi routers.


I think the better solution is "build it into the browser and wait for systems to support it natively".


So exactly what Mozilla is doing.




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