How to Enable DNS Over HTTPS on Microsoft Edge



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Microsoft Edge is now based on Chromium and includes more features and customization options than the previous version. It also claims to be more secure and private than Google Chrome. One of the things you can enable to help protect privacy is DNS over HTTPS (DoH). Learn how to do it here.

DNS over HTTPS or DoH is a protocol for performing remote DNS resolution via HTTPS. It increases user privacy by preventing listening or manipulation of DNS data by a man-in-the-middle attack. It encrypts data between the Ministry of Health client and the Ministry-based DNS resolver.

In addition to data encryption, the goal is to improve performance. When you look up a domain name with the Ministry of Health, browsing is fundamentally safer and faster. At the time of writing this article, Firefox in the United States encrypts domain names by default.



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How to Enable DNS over HTTPS in Edge

  • Open Microsoft Edge.
  • Type in the address bar: edge://flags/#dns-over-https.
  • Select “Enabled” from the drop-down menu next to the line “Secure DNS lookups”.
  • Click the Restart button to restart the browser.
  • You are done!

In the future, Microsoft Edge may be provided with a graphical interface to configure this option.

To Switch to a DoH-compatible DNS Server

DNS over HTTPS (DoH) only works if your configured DNS server is supported by DoH. You may need to change your DNS server to take advantage of DoH.

We recommend using your own Google Public DNS or Cloudflare, which is the default DNS server when DoH is enabled for Firefox. Google has a list of DNS providers that allow chromium-based browsers such as Edge DoH to use, including Cleanbrowsing, Comcast, DNS.SB, OpenDNS and Quad9.

You can verify that DNS over HTTPS works with Edge by visiting Cloudflare’s “Browsing Experience Security Check” site. Do the test by clicking the button and see if Secure DNS is enabled or not.

Fortunately, the Department of Health is quickly becoming the standard for security, privacy and speed. With Chrome, the Ministry of Health will soon be enabled by default. So we’ll probably see that Chrome-based browsers like Edge and Brave will continue to follow Google’s lead.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/is-there-a-plan-to-implement-dns-over-https/m-p/843645



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