• yeehaw@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    At a minimum this meme maker has no idea how TLS, browsers, cookies, or DNS work.

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        6 months ago

        No, a lot will default to that, but they can’t force you to use any particular dns server. I mean they can, buts a fcc violation at that point I believe

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          6 months ago

          It became legal when the Trump administration got rid of net neutrality legislation.

          This is why it is so important to get it back, but the current administration is dragging their feet.

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            6 months ago

            …no, it didn’t. ISPs can’t just block access to specific dns servers Willy nilly. They can slow down specific dns servers of their choice but there’s literally no incentive to do so. Your individual dns traffic isn’t that important I promise.

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              6 months ago

              They do worse than block it, the redirect it to their own servers.

              And the data is worth it at volume. They have hundreds of thousands of users, along with the region they are in, as well as data on what websites they visit.

              Advertisers have and continue to pay for that data.

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        6 months ago

        How can the ISP force their dns? They can’t know where you got the destination ip from.

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        6 months ago

        Never had an ISP firewall my DNS. Not sure what country you live in, but it sounds like China at that rate.

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          6 months ago

          It’s usually ISP specific.

          Some ISPs in the USA and Germany have been doing it. This is why DNS over HTTPs exists to bypass those blocks.

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            6 months ago

            I always thought they exist because privacy. Regular old DNS requests are not encrypted so even if you send a request to 9.9.9.9 your ISP can still see it.

    • hatedbad@lemmy.sdf.org
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      6 months ago

      TLS doesn’t encrypt the host name of the urls you are visiting and DNS traffic is insanely easy to sniff even if you aren’t using your ISPs service.