Security News > 2021 > June > Windows 11 includes the DNS-over-HTTPS privacy feature - How to use
Microsoft has added a privacy feature to Windows 11 called DNS-over-HTTPS, allowing users to perform encrypted DNS lookups to bypass censorship and Internet activity.
DNS-over-HTTPS allows your computer to perform these DNS lookups over an encrypted HTTPS connection rather than through normal plain text DNS lookups, which ISPs and governments can snoop on.
As some governments and ISPs block connections to sites by monitoring a user's DNS traffic, DoH will allow users to bypass censorship, prevent spoofing attacks, and increase privacy as their DNS requests cannot be as easily monitored.
With Windows 11, Microsoft has enabled the DoH feature again, and users can start testing it again if they are currently using DNS servers from Cloudflare, Google, or Quad9.
If you are using a DNS server that is known to support DNS-over-HTTPS, you will see a new 'Preferred DNS encryption' option where you can enable DoH, as shown below.
Encrypted preferred, unencrypted only - Try to use DoH servers, but if not available, fall back to standard unencrypted DNS. At this time, Microsoft states that the following DNS servers are known to support DoH and can be used automatically by the Windows 11 DNS-over-HTTPS feature.