I am confused about DNS over HTTPS protocol. Is there an actual benefit of using this protocol from a privacy standpoint? Can my ISP see the sites I'm visiting when I'm using DNS over HTTPS?
So your answer implies that the organization that control the DoH server, wether that's ISP or other, can see the domains I have requested to resolve, correct?If you are using their DNS server then yes.
Change your dns server to something else and then they can't see that traffic. It still needs to be encrypted with https to keep them from seeing the traffic though.
Quick search for encrypted DNS will yield a ton of public options to use.
Whoever collects this information is highly incentivised to monetize it, not to mention privacy concerns. This is very concerning to me, I'm surprised there isn't better technology developed to handle DNS requests privately and securely in a decentralised way. I wonder if blockchain could be used to solve this problem.That is correct. Whoever looks it up for you has to know what you are asking it to look up. What they do with the info if anything is up to that entity.
Only way around it is to know the actual ip address of where you want to go so no dns server has to get involved
I respectfully disagree, eventually they will figure something out. If you look at Monero for example it's a very good solution to exchanging value (information) in a private manner. Also there is Tor network. And I just did a search they're working on a DNS over tor project which would solve the privacy issues. Now, is it possible to scale these technologies globally, is another consideration.there's no way to somehow maintain your own private dns archive and keep it updated and yet somehow never have it online. just can't work that way and blockchain might be a different way to store the giant database but in the end when it is accessed, someone somewhere will still know who looked up what address. it's physically impossible to have someone look something up for you and them not know what they are looking up.