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>in order to promote their own business model. What's the theory exactly? What would be the benefit for AT&T to block a new 3rd party DNS? Did they do similar
by simias 9y ago
>in order to promote their own business model.
What's the theory exactly? What would be the benefit for AT&T to block a new 3rd party DNS? Did they do similar things in the past for other 3rd party DNSs such as OpenDNS, Quad9 or Google's? Seems odd to target this one service in particular.
- rsynnott 9y agoI would think that being able to see what people are looking up would be quite valuable to an ISP; would help with customer profiling and selling ads. The ship may have sailed on blocking 8.8.8.8 at this point; some things _hard-code_ it.
- xienze 9y ago> I would think that being able to see what people are looking up would be quite valuable to an ISP Definitely. So if this truly was their strategy, why are they blocking 1.1.1.1 instead of pointing it at their own DNS? It would be less immediately obvious what’s happening versus outright blockage. I really think people are prematurely attributing this to nefariousness.