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This is the most alarming thing about this trend that has been happening for the last few years The Internet should be DECENTRALIZED yet it seems we are attemp
by syshum 9y ago
This is the most alarming thing about this trend that has been happening for the last few years
The Internet should be DECENTRALIZED yet it seems we are attempting to do everything in our power to ensure only a handful of companies control access to all information. For what to save 3 ms off a ping time?
Facebook is in hot water over privacy issues, but that is just the tip of the ice berg
Google, AWS, Cloudflare are IMO are larger threat then facebook ever could be.
- duskwuff 9y agoYou're barking up the wrong tree here. DNS is already an inherently centralized service -- using one company's resolvers instead of another doesn't change that.
- syshum 9y agoYes and No the problem with Cloudflare is not simply the fact that DNS is centralized, it is a combination of all their services that is concerning for Cloudflare, between the DDOS Proxy, the CDN, the Other Services, and now DNS that is a lot of services in a single basket, so while it is true that dns is some what centralized, having all traffic and all services dependent upon a single company seems to be a bad idea to me But clearly everyone sees not issue with it provided they "claim" to providing a "privacy first" service for free (ya riiiiiggghhhhttttt and Facebook cares about their users privacy as well) and they have better performance, who cares what the long term effects are... We should be working to make DNS less centralized, or replace it with something less centralized, not moving to DNS over HTTP to a few "cloud" providers who also control all of the content...