Enable DNS over HTTPS on Your Browser to Enhance Security
In this guide, I’ll explain how to enable DNS over HTTPS on multiple browsers like Chrome and Safari.
Essentially, enhancing the privacy and security by encrypting the DNS queries made by your browser.
What is DNS over HTTPS (DoH)?
DoH is a technology that encrypts DNS Queries made by your device or browser, by leveraging HTTPS protocol with its encryption capabilities to encrypt Queries made by your browser or Operating System.
Why Would You Encrypt DNS Queries with DNS over HTTPS?
No one hates privacy, so using DoH to Encrypt DNS queries, enhances your privacy and security and prevents any third parties, including your ISP, from intercepting your DNS queries. Hence, preventing them from knowing which domain you make DNS queries for.
Enabling DNS over HTTPS (DoH) on Chrome:
Go to the settings in your chrome:
Then head to the “Privacy and Security” section, then to the “Security” tab:
On the “Security” page, scroll down and find the option “Use Secure DNS”, make sure it’s enabled:
In the “select DNS provider” drop-down list, select a DNS provider:
Enabling DNS over HTTPS (DoH) on Opera:
Click on the opera logo in the upper left corner:
Then go to the settings by choosing from the menu or by clicking “alt + P”:
Then head to the “Privacy & security” section. And click on “Security”:
Enable the option “Use secure DNS”, then choose your DNS provider from the drop-down menu:
Enabling DNS over HTTPS (DoH) on Firefox:
On Firefox side-menu, open settings:
Then open the section “Privacy & Security”, and scroll down to “DNS over HTTPS”:
In the “Enable DNS over HTTPS” Menu, you have multiple option to choose from:
To enable DoH, you can choose either “Increased Protection” Or “Max Protection”.
Enabling DNS over HTTPS (DoH) on Edge:
Open settings in Edge side menu:
Open the “Privacy, search, and services” Section, then scroll down to the “Security” Part:
Make sure the option “Use secure DNS to specify how to lookup the network address for websites” is Enabled, then toggle the option “Choose a service provider” and choose your preferred DNS provider from the drop down list:
Conclusion:
DoH is an Easy-to-Enable step that adds an extra layer of security while browsing the web.
As it’s supported natively by most of the Operating system and web browsers.
Additionally, You can enable DNS over HTTPS and DNS over TLS for Windows and Linux, however, for MacOS and Safari browser, they don’t support DoH or DoT natively, but with some tools like dnscrypt on MacOS, you can enforce DoH on your MacOS.
