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Google wants the whole internet to go through them. Starting with the bloody DNS ... nice plan ... probably needs quite a bit lobbying and bad-mouthing other ac

by chvid 7y ago

Google wants the whole internet to go through them. Starting with the bloody DNS ... nice plan ... probably needs quite a bit lobbying and bad-mouthing other actors to succeed though ... Absolutely. You can find a dishonest ISP. The difference is that there are thousands of them. And not just one big opaque entity.

freyr 7y ago
They're not moving anybody to Google's own DNS servers. If your current DNS provider offers encrypted service, they'll begin using that. Starting with version 78, Chrome will begin experimenting with the new DoH feature. Under the experiment, Chrome will "check if the user's current DNS provider is among a list of DoH-compatible providers, and upgrade to the equivalent DoH service from the same provider," Google wrote. "If the DNS provider isn't in the list, Chrome will continue to operate as it does today."
Andrex 7y ago
ISPs are de facto more opaque than Google, and I'm not sure having a thousand of them is better than having only one. A single company is easily legislatable, auditable, fineable, and chargeable if offenses are found. A thousand individual bad actors? The odds decrease.