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One of the more evil things they could do is show you ads, for example every 100 requests, you are shown a full page ad for a few seconds, then directs to where
by kokojie 3y ago
One of the more evil things they could do is show you ads, for example every 100 requests, you are shown a full page ad for a few seconds, then directs to where you were going. Pretty much like how youtube does it.
I'm not saying they will do this, but they could if they wanted to. I've seen this from DNS providers in other countries.
- bbkane 3y agoWould that work over HTTPS? My understanding is that, when the browser connects to the IP returned over DNS, it validates the TLS cert returned by the server at that IP contains the website name.
- Ajedi32 3y agoThankfully that's probably not feasible anymore given how prevalent HTTPS is these days.
- lxgr 3y agoGiven that almost every site now uses HTTPS, they could only do this for users navigating to non-existing domains (and furthermore have to register the domain names themselves, or they wouldn't be able to get any TLS certificate for them).
- aednichols 3y agoOpenDNS used to hijack DNS to show ads, which is one of the reasons Google launched the non-hijacking 8.8.8.8 in 2009. OpenDNS quickly followed suit. No one would attempt it today, seeing as it would instantly make you the worst DNS resolver on the Internet and switching away is trivial.