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"think of the children" is never out of style. but remember we have this (widespread from 90s to 2010) to this day in the USA, and they don't even bother with
by 1oooqooq 2y ago
"think of the children" is never out of style.
but remember we have this (widespread from 90s to 2010) to this day in the USA, and they don't even bother with excuses. just shove advertising and hijack searches right on your face.
google didn't force httpsdns on your browser for nothing. it was digging in THEIR pockets.
- pipes 2y agoNot exactly the same thing, as it isn't a law.
- speedchess 2y agoWhich makes it worse in many ways. The entire tech, business, etc world has adopted the same censorship regime without government orders. So who is giving out the orders?
- linotype 2y agoShareholders.
- spacemanspiff01 2y agoWhy does Google benefit from httpsdns?
- em-bee 2y agohttpsdns in the chrome browser will by default go to googles dns servers allowing them to collect all the tracking data.
- selcuka 2y agoThey could've done that without httpsdns too.
- em-bee 2y agoyes, but then they would have upset local admins for bypassing the local resolver. that is still an issue with httpdns, but now they have a better argument against using the local resolver as default. the ideal situation would actually be to implement httpdns on the OS/router level and allow the user/local admin choose the policy. i expect that this is going to happen soon in most linux distributions.
- brookst 2y agoSurely they could just as easily report all DNS queries to Google under the guise of telemetry or search optimization or whatever. And of course let people disable that, which about 0.001% would do. Httpdns is too complex of a solution to the business goal you’re suggesting. There are much simpler / less expensive ways of doing it.
- 1oooqooq 2y agoBefore it, typing "hawaii Hotels" on the addresa bar and pressing enter would generate a dns search... Verizon et al woule intercept and send you to THEIR search engine. It's the main reason google google pushed httpdns and chrome. So you go to google.com. google current money cow is literally AOL keywords.