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If you've seen in the PR for #ECH in #curl and been curious what it is? github.com/curl/curl/pull/1192…

The browsers go all-in on it. Now #Firefox:
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Say (an encrypted) hello to a more private internet.

As web users, what we say and do online is subject to pervasive surveillance. Although we typically associate online tracking with ad networks and other th
Sarah Vasquez (The Mozilla Blog)
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Peter Bindels
Peter Bindels
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I've been trying to find proper docs on which approach it would become for a few years now. Good to see that we're getting implementations, so I can go make it and know it won't change from under me.
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Neil Craig
Neil Craig
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This is such good news. I've had a plan on ice for a few years now to make it significantly harder to block websites. Excited for this!
Gonna need to find out the state of play with Safari ECH but Chrome/ium + Firefox is more than enough to make it useful.
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Daniel
Daniel
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@tdp_org Sadly disabling DOH via use-application-dns.net will also disable ECH, so I'm not sure how much of an improvement this is (specifically in regards to blocking websites)
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Daniel
Daniel
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@tdp_org I totally understand why you need DOH (or DOT etc.), though I do wonder if DNSSEC alone would be enough. But I suppose you could correlate plaintext DNS with the actual request if you wanted to …

And ECH still is a great idea to prevent ISPs from snooping 👍

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