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Global communication protocols and interfaces should be left to the ISPs, just like email and NNTP etc. used to be, and DNS still is. Really, why can't everyth
by Razengan 4y ago
Global communication protocols and interfaces should be left to the ISPs, just like email and NNTP etc. used to be, and DNS still is.
Really, why can't everything be like DNS? You ask the nearest available authority about something, and that in turn asks the next nearest authority, until that shit is found. Would work for web search too.
When you need a pretty UI just put different client apps on top of it, just like we did/do for email and newsgroups.
- tannhaeuser 4y agoThey're ruining DNS, too, in the form of DNS-over-HTTP. The justification being that DNS is tampered with by national NICs (eg a paragon of press freedom such as ycombinator.com redirected to something else). Of course, DoH has absolutely nothing to do with valuable DNS query data and closing "leaks" of visit data from Google's PoV ...