Firefox enables network privacy feature for users in US

From CNET: Mozilla has begun enabling a Firefox privacy feature for everyone in the US that should make it harder for ISPs or others to track you online. The technology, called DNS over HTTPS (DOH), protects a crucial internet addressing technology with encryption.

Mozilla has tested DOH for months, but on Tuesday will start enabling DOH for everyone in the US. The gradual spread to all Firefox users should take a few weeks as Mozilla checks for problems.

DOH fits with a tech industry shift toward privacy that has been triggered by data breaches, digitalization of our lives and issues like Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal. Mozilla has long championed privacy, and Apple has made it a major priority. Even Google and Facebook, online advertising giants that make money by following you around the web, are trying to adjust.

"DNS over HTTPS has the potential to close one of the largest privacy gaps on the web," said Max Hunter, an engineering director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an online privacy group, in an earlier blog post.

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