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You don't have every single car brand with their own fuel at the gas station right?
If a car brand did, I would find it surprising that a buyer of that brand would complain about it.
That's in fact the approach of many printer manufacturers regarding toner/ink cartridges, and usually users complain about that.
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Maybe I'm missing the forest for the trees but... what possible reason would you have for taking a Chromecast to a coffee shop?
Campuses also have this kind of security. I can't use a Chromecast or a Google Home on my college campus because my school's IT team blocks all DNS servers except their own.
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>My Chromecast went through massive amount of trouble to use Google's DNS servers No it didn't, it just queried 8.8.8.8 instead of whatever DNS server your DHCP configuration told it to use. Putting "nameserver 8.8.8.8" in /etc/resolv.conf and marking it read-only would have the same effect. Doesn't look like much trouble does it?
Is it reasonable to fail if you can't access a specific DNS server? This is unexpected behavior. And I don't have access to the /etc/resolv.conf on my Chromecast, that's the problem! Anyway, there's a new thread on this specific phenomenon. I'm glad I'm not the only one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19170671
This should bother people here more than it does. The last thing the Internet needs is even more dependence upon Google. They've made it quite clear through their actions that they're not supporters of a free and open Internet: https://theintercept.com/2018/09/14/google-china-prototype-l... If people don't push back against these kinds of things, Google will continue to abuse their power. There shouldn't be an army o…
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Sounds interesting. Do you have a write up about creating such a setup?
No, I don't, but it's conceptually pretty easy (the devil is always in the details). I'm sure you could find something on the net describing this better. What I've done is, first, to block the HTTPS port from going anywhere except to my proxy. If you want to use HTTPS in my network, you have to install my cert. That cert is used to negotiate the HTTPS connection to the proxy. The proxy then has access to the plain-te…
I suspect the answer is "I don't use them", but that's going to be a blocker for mostly everyone.
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FWIW, Chrome does this as well. Its DNS prefetch feature will ignore your local hosts file and configured DNS servers. It creates annoying problems if you have a VPN where some hosts resolve differently than they do publicly. Granted, in this case if you block Google's DNS servers from routing, Chrome will use your system's name resolution configuration.
TIL! This upsets me more than the Chromecast using Google's DNS. I barely use Chrome anymore (just for testing really) but the thought that any domain I wish to go to can be overridden by the browser by default - that's scary. I mean what if Google doesn't like your website's content. They can block it on their DNS server and 99.999% of Chrome users would think something was wrong with your site. Thank you, I hate it…
This should bother people here more than it does. The last thing the Internet needs is even more dependence upon Google. They've made it quite clear through their actions that they're not supporters of a free and open Internet: https://theintercept.com/2018/09/14/google-china-prototype-l... If people don't push back against these kinds of things, Google will continue to abuse their power. There shouldn't be an army o…
This should bother people here more than it does. The last thing the Internet needs is even more dependence upon Google. They've made it quite clear through their actions that they're not supporters of a free and open Internet: https://theintercept.com/2018/09/14/google-china-prototype-l... If people don't push back against these kinds of things, Google will continue to abuse their power. There shouldn't be an army o…
> This should bother people here more than it does. The last thing the Internet needs is even more dependence upon Google. They've made it quite clear through their actions that they're not supporters of a free and open Internet: https://theintercept.com/2018/09/14/google-china-prototype-l... . Which reminds me of: > Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday called for uncensored Internet access around the world…
What I ended up doing to ensure this for any of the devices I have is use pfSense to force all DNS queries to go to my DNS server: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/dns/blocking-dns-...