It looks like Mozilla is enabling these features by default for Firefox 62 after a controversial Shield Study earlier this year. These override one's system DNS preferences by default, relying on 3rd parties (currently CloudFlare) for DNS. These features seem like they could do more harm than good for all but the most casual of browser users. * Adds complexity to troubleshooting browser issues * Creates a single point of failure * Sends private data from browsing to a third party without consent
The "casual browser user" demographic likely has a very narrow if nonexistent overlap with OpenBSD desktop/laptop users. Are there plans to have these configuration settings disabled for the packaged versions of Firefox in ports? If not, I would suggest at least adding a blurb about these features to the install-message. --ax0n
