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> The OpenDNS Guide was, until recently, a helpful tool. If the website you wanted to visit wasn’t loading, we took you to search results instead of an error pa
by justinlardinois 10y ago
> The OpenDNS Guide was, until recently, a helpful tool. If the website you wanted to visit wasn’t loading, we took you to search results instead of an error page.
Why would anyone ever want to use a service that did that? I guess it's good that they're not doing that anymore, but that's really awful.
- amelius 10y agoWell, nowadays in Chrome and probably some other browsers, Google is effectively doing that, i.e., showing suggestions when you make a typo in the address bar while typing.
- justinlardinois 10y agoDoing it at the browser level is a lot more reasonable than at the DNS level.
- kijin 10y agoBack when OpenDNS started doing it, most browsers couldn't do it. Hacking NXDOMAIN was a workaround that also happened to pay their bills. It was never a particularly good decision, but we need to evaluate it from the point of view of what was or wasn't feasible 10 years ago.
- corobo 10y agoNot everybody is technical.
- justinlardinois 10y agoYou don't have to be technical for that to be undesirable behavior.