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The consumer of the DNS is the Chromecast. Its preference is 8.8.8.8 .

• darpa_escapee 8y ago
  A Chromecast isn't an agent with free will and intentions, the user is. When I set my DNS settings to a different DNS server than Google's, my preference is just that: different from Google's.
  • jtms 8y ago
    I think your humor detection algorithm needs some enhancement.
• JohnFen 8y ago
  Chromcasts are sentient now? Wow, that should be the headline!
  • Rapzid 8y ago
    I'm clearly meaning the choices made by the Chromecast via the product and service owners and creators. The thing is a consumer IoT device with a lot of blackbox going on. It's consuming the DNS service to provide another service to the end user. How that happens is trivia to most people. I think it's fine to want that configurable and maybe, maybe even expect or ask for it.. But I believe concocting conspiracy and assigning malicious intent so readily, as many are, displays either an ignorance of how products get built for the mass market or a feigning of such. As others who have worked on IoT devices have pointed out, there are rather valid user experience concerns behind baking these "preferences" into the products.
    • JohnFen 8y ago
      Obviously, I knew what you meant. You just expressed it in a humorous (and, I think, not entirely valid) way, granting agency to the device rather than people. > As others who have worked on IoT devices have pointed out, there are rather valid user experience concerns behind baking these "preferences" into the products. Which is something that I have not denied. What I assert is that there absolutely needs to be a way to change that behavior if users wish. The lack of that ability is, in my opinion, something that is harmful, both technically and socially.
• pmontra 8y ago
  The owner of the Chromecast decides which DNS to use, unless we decide that Google keeps owning it and the sale is not a sale.