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> There's nothing sneaky going on here; It bloody is. Egregiously so. If they are deviating from expected behaviour[1] they should obtain informed consent and
by RaleyField 8y ago
> There's nothing sneaky going on here;
It bloody is. Egregiously so. If they are deviating from expected behaviour[1] they should obtain informed consent and even then it's unethical. Half of Mozilla is screaming decentralisation[2], the other is centralising the web as fast as they can. I still haven't forgiven Linux Mint for similar shenanigans[3].
[1] Users understand instinctively the principle behind reverse dns lookup. If ISPs can resolve at least portion of domain names then it doesn't make sense to then introduce another completely random third party that isn't strictly necessary for the process.
[2] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/07/introducing-the-d-web/ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/07/introducing-the-d-web/
[3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1133777 https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1133777