OpenDNS is hijacking Google requests (For what they claim is a good reason)

Re:OpenDNS is hijacking Google requests (For what they claim... by tptacek on Thursday March 13, 2008 @08:02PM (#136396)

What OpenDNS is doing is far more pernicious than what Dell did. You can remove Dell's software and still use your computer. If you're making the mistake of relying on OpenDNS, there's little you can do to avoid their proxy.

You'd want to say this is a horrible precedent, but it's not unprecedented --- it's exactly what Verisign tried to pull on us a few years back.

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Re:OpenDNS is hijacking Google requests (For what they claim... by juanpablo on Thursday March 13, 2008 @08:33PM (#136421)

You can change the DNSs too. At least you can choose to use OpenDNS or not in the first place.

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Re:OpenDNS is hijacking Google requests (For what they claim... by derefr on Friday March 14, 2008 @05:02AM (#136677)

You can choose to buy Dell or not in the first place as well. (And if you say that people can have Dell products forced upon them by their company, well, they can have OpenDNS forced upon them by their network administrator as well.)

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Re:OpenDNS is hijacking Google requests (For what they claim... by muszek on Friday March 14, 2008 @09:42AM (#136770)

I bet when you visit dell.com, you're 2 clicks away from reading in plain English about all the crap they install on your computer.

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Re:OpenDNS is hijacking Google requests (For what they claim... by xirium on Friday March 14, 2008 @05:17AM (#136680)

Yes, it is a question of opt-in versus opt-out and the difficulty of making those actions.

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