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And if it happened to be that Archive.is actually had a beef with John Doe's ISP, who's to blame for that default getting picked?


Not Mozilla.


So in that situation, would Mozilla then be the good guys by adopting DoH and fixing the user's broken network level DNS?

So basically whether Mozilla is doing the right thing or not here is entirely dependent on who the archive.is operators decide to target?

What about all the services that will be fixed for users after Mozilla makes this change, due to poorly operated DNS from the provider?


Nah, the lesson is that users are going to blame you when you make low level arbitrary changes that break things when they're not capable of knowing about and fixing the technical problems that arise. The fact that a change might accidentally fix problems sometimes isn't a counter example to that general principle.


Even when the possibility of things getting fixed is substantially more likely than the possibility of things getting broken?

By default Firefox will fall back to the network resolver if DoH can't get the results, so the only way that a situation like this could happen is if someone purposely sabotages the DoH results like with archive.is.

Furthermore, what you are saying could basically be used to rationalize putting any kind of potentially breaking change behind an off-by-default configurable. Do you think the web would be the sophisticated application platform it is today if browser vendors actually had that philosophy? Would that actually be better for John Doe, to make them have to learn about the technical aspects of every new web technology before they are able to take advantage of them?




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