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Google disallowed servers initially as a non-insignificant number of people thought of the service as an easy entry into mass virtual hosting as soon as they go
by eksith 13y ago
Google disallowed servers initially as a non-insignificant number of people thought of the service as an easy entry into mass virtual hosting as soon as they got it. That started to affect throughput[1]. As mentioned numerous times elsewhere, their ultimate goal is to embarrass ISPs into providing better service. That seems to be working in Texas ATM. The hobbyists that complained got an exemption in their TOS for non-commercial use[2].
Of course, Google is collecting information about me. As is every other ISP (Verizon and Comcast hijack domain misspellings to redirect to their search pages), which is why VPNs and Tor are so popular right now.
[1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/google-we-can-ban-servers-on-fiber-without-violating-net-neutrality/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/google...
[2] https://support.google.com/fiber/answer/2659981 https://support.google.com/fiber/answer/2659981
- lucb1e 13y ago> (Verizon and Comcast hijack domain misspellings to redirect to their search pages) What?! Thought only OpenDNS (and similar services) did that bullshit, and in their case I can understand. In the case of an ISP... you're paying them already!
- eksith 13y agoThey totally did. I used to be on Comcast and they did it all the time. There's a setting to turn it off, apparently, but I was never able to. I switched to FiOS fairly recently and it was the same. Any time I browse to an invalid URL, it went to the Verizon search capture page that I had to manually opt out. E.G. http://youtube.ff http://youtube.ff goes to http://search.dnsassist.verizon.net/assist.php?url=youtube.ff http://search.dnsassist.verizon.net/assist.php?url=youtube.f... They explain it in the DNS about page : http://search.dnsassist.verizon.net/skins/verizon/en/about.html http://search.dnsassist.verizon.net/skins/verizon/en/about.h... You have to go into the router to turn it off. http://www.verizon.com/support/residential/internet/fiosinternet/troubleshooting/network/questionsone/99147.htm http://www.verizon.com/support/residential/internet/fiosinte...