Despite ISP Opposition, All Major Browsers will Eventually Roll Out DNS-over-HTTPS

There are almost six major browser vendors that are supporting DNS-over-HTTPS. It is a protocol that encrypts DNS traffic and it gradually improves a user's privacy on the web. When the DoH is deployed inside a browser the browser automatically ids the DNS request and responses inside looking at the HTTPS traffic. A user's DNS traffic is made invisible by this method to the third party network observers. ISPs, networking operators, and cyber-security vendors hated it but the users loved DoH and have deemed it a privacy boon.

Here is how to enable DoH in varrious platforms, to enable DoH in Brave vist brave://flags/#dns-over-https, to enable it in Chrome which is the second browser to support DoH after Firefox visit chrome://flags/#dns-over-https. Firefox forces all DoH traffic to Cloudflare by default. To enable it in Edge visit edge://flags/#dns-over-https to enable in Opera visit opera://flags/opera-doh.

As you enable DoH in Chrome when user types a website URL it goes through the OS's DNS server and checks to see if this DNS server is on a whitelist of approved DoH-capable DNS servers. If the DNS server is on a whitelist of approved DoH-capable DNS servers Chrome sends a DoH (encrytped) DNS query to that DNS server's DoH interface if not it sends a regular DNS query to the same server.