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Also today, Firefox just announced that's it's putting in place something that's called DNS over https, a protocol that's supposed to make your browsing experience a lot more private.
Technology prevents other people from tracking you when you type in an address for say, CNET.com.
Firefox's creator Mozilla has long been a champion of privacy, though folks are still using The Chrome browser effort.
What do you think?
Let me just preface this by saying that.
the Chrome browser also does this.
But you have to turn it on by settings.
Yes
And if you watch this show before you understand how frustrated I get about default settings,
Yes,
But I kind of want to just break down what DNS over HTTPS is, just because a lot of, it's like a lot of
A lot of suits, a lot of letters.
Yeah.
So DNS.
Think of that as like a phone book.
Right.
Hm-hm
So The way the internet works is that, you type in a URL and you go somewhere right but the URL is not what is actually going on behind the scenes are going to the IP address, but you're not you're gonna, you're more likely to remember cnet.com over l 10.1.2, whatever.
It's the same way you don't remember everyone's phone number but you have their contacts listed there.
So that Has been like how the internet has worked for like decades.
And that has been sending over HTTP for a long time
Yeah.
For a really long time, which is not good because that's not encrypted.
And like your ISP, and other acronyms or your internet provider can, like use that data to say, This person goes on seeing that a lot.
Let's put like tech advertisements for this person.
Yeah.
So once it's encrypted, then it becomes kind of a way to say like, hey, you can't like look at this data anymore.
And the thing that Mozilla is doing like is a very big deal that they're making a default.
Yes.
Option where you don't have to do anything.
Which is how Things should be, right?
Well look, Google, which owns the Chrome browser, makes a lot of money on advertising, so taking the feature away or taking that ability to peer into what that traffic looks like, you know.
Yeah.
But [UNKNOWN].
So DNS based ads are a lot more for Internet service providers than they are for your browser.
Right.
Because like if you search stuff by HTTPS that's also encrypted.
So Google has a lot more ways of targeting your ads like rather than using that kinda security, I don't know why they haven't made it by default.
Yeah,
Totally should.
I just don't know how much of their money like actually comes from that.
Gotcha.
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