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I don't think any existing DNS providers have other sources of data like Google does. It's when it all comes together (search+analytics+adsense+Google Account r
by ericd 17y ago
I don't think any existing DNS providers have other sources of data like Google does. It's when it all comes together (search+analytics+adsense+Google Account reporting your trail, indexed website content and your email for profiling you) to make a dataset with potentially unprecedented cleanliness/completeness that it becomes interesting/scary. They can likely draw much stronger conclusions than most.
Not sure if their privacy policy lets them exercise their power fully in this field, though.
- pyre 17y agoI was specifically addressing his post, not every possibility. He was claiming this was bad because Google has access to the content at each of the servers you lookup through their DNS service. My point was that so does everyone else on the internet, including other DNS providers that you might use. (i.e. If I go to sws.example.com which hosts a Secret Warez Stash, unless it's password-protected everyone has access to it, not just Google.)