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This sounds good! Although not a waterfox user, are there any other good reasons to try it out over hardened firefox?
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There is also Mercury, which claims to combine quite a lot of the nice stuff from different FF forks. I personally stick to the original, but it might be worth checking out.
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It has a nice ui on windows. I use it at university
Sidetrack: I really wish OS vendors would support DNS over TLS (and maybe DoH, I just prefer the former).
I understand that on a LAN the router is typically acting as the DNS server but I don’t see why the OS couldn’t be smart enough to automatically detect DNS over TLS on the standard port when overriding the DNS settings manually.
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I can’t speak to Android but all of those require running some DNS recursive resolver locally then pointing the OS resolver to it. While I do that already, it doesn’t really address the issue I’m getting at: the OS doesn’t natively support it.
On macOS/iOS I use a
.mobileconfigfile to point to my Dockerized DNS over TLS resolver in the cloud and it works great, but why do I need to do that rather than use the “normal” DNS preferences? Command line tools still revert to the DHCP DNS server so on macOS I run unbound to take care of that.For Linux, I’m mainly running a Raspberry Pi on Alpine Linux with unbound as well; it works great for DHCP clients that get pointed to it but (especially if this were some company LAN) all the DNS queries are still going over the LAN unencrypted.
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I think you can do that right now on Linux, this Quad9 article describes it working with
systemd-resolvedTypo, you mean DoH at some point in your comment.
Corrected, thanks 👍