I thought Mozilla was the one behind ECH. How is it enabled in Chrome, Edge, and Opera and not in Librewolf, let alone Firefox?

Is this a false negative from https://privacytests.org?

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What is ECH?

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IIRC, Mozilla doesn’t ship Firefox with DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) enabled by default in most countries – and I think it only does Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) if DoH is enabled.

From LibreWolf’s website:

By default DoH is not enabled in LibreWolf.

I assume that also disables ECH by default.

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What is ECH and GPC?

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ECH: Encrypted Client Hello

GPC: Global Privacy Control

I don’t really understand these specs on a deep level, so I can’t summarize them for you, but these articles should be able to answer any questions you have:

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ECH I can sort of see working.

GPC is just won’t have any impact without any kind of laws requiering it’s use globally woth actual follow ups and punnishments.

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