Re: [Trisquel-devel] Abrowser 136 soon available for testing

2025-04-04 Thread Simon Josefsson
Luis Guzman  writes:

> This release has one key change: DNS over HTTPS (DoH) is now disabled
> by default starting with version 136.
>
> This decision is based on the recent Terms of Service (ToS) update by
> Mozilla. I'm not a lawyer, but AFAIK, Abrowser is not subject to those
> terms, since it is rebranded and recompiled entirely from source, I
> believe it’s safer to disable Mozilla-hosted services by default,
> including DoH, so there is no future requirement to Abrowser users to
> accept some TOS.
>
> That said, there's a trade-off: while DoH can improve security by
> encrypting DNS queries, it may also introduce privacy concerns, as the
> DoH provider (often a centralized service) can log and track DNS
> requests.
>
> Users must decide whether they prefer to trust a centralized encrypted
> resolver, or continue using their ISP's DNS (typically
> unencrypted). Each choice has some level of privacy and security
> implications. However, the use of DoH falls outside the scope of
> Abrowser or Trisquel support umbrella, so users should made an
> informed choice of what's best for them.

I think there are three ways approaches to DoH:

1) Disable it.
2) Opportunistically enable DoH when a local resolver supports it.
3) Always enable it and use a centralized service at Mozilla.

I agree 3) seems like a bad default for Abrowser.  But 2) seems better
than 1) to me.  Does Firefox support anything like that, or are we out
of luck trying to get that to work?

/Simon


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Re: [Trisquel-devel] Abrowser 136 soon available for testing

2025-04-03 Thread Eric
By the way, abrowser 136.0.4 is asking to save passwords, which I 
thought was disabled by default in a previous release. This is a new 
abrowser profile on Trisquel mini install iso I am testing from.


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Re: [Trisquel-devel] Abrowser 136 soon available for testing

2025-04-03 Thread Luis Guzman


En 03/04/25 22:05, Eric escribió:
By the way, abrowser 136.0.4 is asking to save passwords, which I 
thought was disabled by default in a previous release. This is a new 
abrowser profile on Trisquel mini install iso I am testing from.


No it was not, there where users complaining that it should stay, so it 
stayed the same.




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Re: [Trisquel-devel] Abrowser 136 soon available for testing

2025-04-03 Thread Eric

And the first option, is to use of course the Mozilla DoH one.


Would it be better to note to the user this instead of calling it the 
secure DNS option?


Why not have HTTPS-Only Mode enabled by default?

Is the Software Protection a Mozilla service too?

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Re: [Trisquel-devel] Abrowser 136 soon available for testing

2025-04-01 Thread Luis Guzman


En 01/04/25 11:08, David Lecompte escribió:

"Abrowser decides when to use secured DNS to protect your privacy


This is exactly what it means, that it will decide "when" will it use 
it, but by default it will make all the queries to determine that.



- use secure DNS in regions where it is available
- user your default DNS server if there is a problem with the secure DNS
provider
- user a local provider if possible
- deactivate when using VPN, parental control or enterprise strategies
- deactivate when a network tells abrowser not to use secure DNS"

The next default to to be deactivated, so you set it up as you require.

I see above that: "state: deactivated". Does that mean that this "secure
DNS" is Mozilla and no other, and that it is not working for me now which is
why it is currently not used? I don't recall ever seeing something else than
"deactivated" there, but I didn't look at it so


Yeah, the top status is more like a current connection basis thing, but 
the default behavior is what is selected below that.


And the first option, is to use of course the Mozilla DoH one.

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