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Many ISPs hijack DNS NXDOMAIN results to serve ads to their customers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_hijacking#Manipulation_by_ISPs https://en.wikipedia.or

• Gracana 12y ago
  What I hate most about DNS hijacking is that it ends up tainting my browser's URL autocompletion list. If I go to "news" instead of "news.ycombinator.com" because I didn't wait for the completion, my ISP will serve up a valid resulting page... and my autocomplete will be happy to take me to "news" again and again after that.
  • tokenizerrr 12y ago
    It is annoying, but know that you can remove entries from the autocomplete list (in Chrome at least) by selecting it using the arrow keys and using shift+delete.
    • Gracana 12y ago
      I recall having trouble with that in chrome. I seem to get inconsistent results removing history items in firefox, too. I dunno. shrug