My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8
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My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8
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Re: My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8
#2This is really shady of Google to do, and the fact that they think that it's acceptable just shows how far we've come. "Don't be evil" apparently means "spy on people, censor based on politics, help dirtbags stuck in the 12th century treat women as property, and assist totalitarian regimes to stay in power and censor their populace".
Google is literally cartoonishly evil at this point. That slogan of theirs is an absolute joke.
Re: My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8
#3Shitty device then. Or is there a legitimate usecase for such behaviour?
Re: My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8
#4This is really shady of Google to do, and the fact that they think that it's acceptable just shows how far we've come. "Don't be evil" apparently means "spy on people, censor based on politics, help dirtbags stuck in the 12th century treat women as property, and assist totalitarian regimes to stay in power and censor their populace". Google is literally cartoonishly evil at this point. That slogan of theirs is an abs…
Oh they know, it’s why they got rid of it and it lives on as a sub note in employee guidelines. Because no one reads those.
Re: My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8
#5Very questionable, as fallback possibly ok but not forced. Is it the same with home mini devices?
Re: My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8
#6I posted this a while ago on the /r/pihole subreddit. Since my router is a bit more restricted, I ended up blocking Google's DNS as they've been doing this in other devices and software as well. It seems that they only add one of the dns servers and fallback onto the DNS server provider by DHCP. My pihole number of queries suddenly jumped up after I blocked those IPs.
Re: My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8
#7Expect more of this once “DNS over HTTPS” takes hold.
Nothing Google makes will ever respect your DHCP-server or local network settings ever again.
Re: My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8
#8Very questionable, as fallback possibly ok but not forced. Is it the same with home mini devices?
I've confirmed that this is the case a while ago. Google Home, Google Home Mini. Netflix seems to do this as well with their apps.
Re: My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8
#9Shitty device then. Or is there a legitimate usecase for such behaviour?
> Or is there a legitimate usecase for such behaviour?
Yes, to track you better.
Re: My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8
#10Shitty device then. Or is there a legitimate usecase for such behaviour?
Google DNS came about because of a very real problem of shitty ISPs giving shitty DNS servers that gave fake results (especially in NXDomain cases)
I can see why you would want to use a known-good dns provider in your product, however at the very least there should be an ability to turn off such behaviour.