May 21, 2020

Chrome 83 adds DNS-over-HTTPS support and privacy tweaks

This week sees the early arrival of Chrome 83 with a longer list of new security features than originally planned.

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May 15, 2020

Microsoft joins encrypted DNS club with Windows 10 option

Microsoft is the latest browser vendor to join the encrypted DNS club by supporting DNS over HTTPS in Windows 10.

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February 28, 2020

Firefox rolling out DNS-over-HTTPS privacy by default in the US

Mozilla has said it plans to make a privacy technology called DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) the default setting for US users of Firefox within weeks.

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February 20, 2020

Firefox 73.0.1 fixes crashes, blank web pages and DRM niggles

Firefox version 73 has only been out for a week but already Mozilla has had to update it to v73.0.1 to fix a range of browser problems.

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December 18, 2019

Mozilla adds NextDNS to list of DNS-over-HTTPS providers

Firefox users interested in turning on the browser’s DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) privacy feature now have two providers to choose from.

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November 21, 2019

DNS-over-HTTPS is coming to Windows 10

Microsoft will soon add the ability to use DNS-over-HTTPS and DNS-over-TLS into its networking client.

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November 06, 2019

Mozilla says ISPs are lying to Congress about encrypted DNS

Mozilla on Friday posted a letter urging Congress to take the broadband industry's lobbying against encrypted DNS within Firefox and Chrome with a grain of salt.

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October 01, 2019

Cloudflare adds VPN features to 1.1.1.1 privacy app

As promised in April, Cloudflare has finally launched Warp, a consumer mobile privacy app that looks a lot like a VPN without actually being one.

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September 13, 2019

Mozilla Private Network VPN gives Firefox another privacy boost

Is this week's test pilot launch of Mozilla Private Network the moment browser VPNs finally become a must-have privacy feature?

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