USA Users to experience the newly DoH feature on Firefox

By Today, USA users will experience the DoH or DNS-over-HTTPS feature on their Mozilla Firefox browser by default. This feature provides the encrypted DNS resolution rather than through normal plain text DNS lookups. As some countries and ISPs block sits or censor content by monitoring DNS traffic, this DoH feature on Firefox allow users to bypass these blocks and hence increase the privacy of the DNS request.

This is the official announcement from Mozilla Firefox:

“Today, Firefox began the rollout of encrypted DNS over HTTPS (DoH) by default for US-based users. The rollout will continue over the next few weeks to confirm no major issues are discovered as this new protocol is enabled for Firefox’s US-based users,”

After this announcement, it met with a criticism as Cloudflare was the only DoH provider used by the Firefox, which means users’ data now, is in the hands of a single DNS provider. Admins also concerned that the Firefox would overrule the DNS policies and security precautions through the Cloudflare. In addressing to this concern, the users can use custom DoH provider or may even disable this feature.

You can check whether the DoH run-out system add-on is installed by entering about: support in the Firefox address and scrolling to the list of the Firefox Features. If the DoH Roll-Out listed in it, the DNS -over-HTTPs feature is enabled by default.

Alternatively, you can enable it by going into about:config, accepting the risk and searching network.trr.mode. it will set to “2”, if the DoH feature is enabled.

Due to such confusion arises it may possible that the Mozilla integrate this feature directly to the Firefox.