What Exactly is DNS-over-HTTPS and Do you Need to Use it?

Traditional Domain Name System (DNS) traffic, such as user requests to visit specific websites, has been largely unencrypted throughout the history of the internet. This means that every party involved in the DNS value chain that your request goes through has the ability to examine your queries and responses, and even change them, whenever you look up a web address in the “internet telephone book.” This is altered by DNS encryption, such as DNS over HTTPS (DoH).

Many of the major internet service providers, including Apple, Mozilla, Microsoft, and Google, have integrated encrypted DNS through DoH into their offerings. While Apple implemented DoH with the iOS 14 and macOS 11 updates in the autumn of 2020, Mozilla was an early adopter, integrating it into its browser in the US as early as late 2018. DoH has also been made available on Chrome for Android by Google.

A global phone directory on the internet

The Domain Name System (DNS) essentially serves as the internet’s version of the phone book. If you think of it a little l

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