Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/www/firefox

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 07:27:58AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> So certainly this needs to be in the next quarterly release announcement.
> 
> 
> > People have different preferences and this feature does encrypt some
> > traffic that wasn't encrypted before.
> 
> Yes, and it sends it (encrypted) to third parties, rather than to the
> user's configured DNS.
> 
> Is there a link to the privacy policy (and auditing of it) of all of the
> preconfigured providers, which addresses things like
> 
>   they don't retain any information, even for debugging
>   they don't use the information
>   what they do about court orders and law enforcement requests

I totaly agree, it is a privacy disaster in all setups that had their
own (caching) DNS server already.

It is easy to globaly disable in your local DNS though,
google for: use-application-dns.net

Martin