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Re:Amazon Sets Its Sights on the $88B Online Ad Market by Buge on Monday September 03, 2018 @08:25PM (#17905732)
According to the privacy page for Public DNS, it sounds like that data is not used for ads

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy

>We don't correlate or combine information from our temporary or permanent logs with any personal information that you have provided Google for other services.

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Re:Amazon Sets Its Sights on the $88B Online Ad Market by manigandham on Monday September 03, 2018 @08:48PM (#17905815)
It doesnt need to be used specifically for ads, it's still aggregated data that helps monitor network traffic.
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Re:Amazon Sets Its Sights on the $88B Online Ad Market by flukus on Monday September 03, 2018 @09:40PM (#17906032)
For now, if they ever get to the point where it's used in the default DNS in most home modems and consumer devices then I'd expect that to change.

Edit - s/root/default

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Re:Amazon Sets Its Sights on the $88B Online Ad Market by Buge on Monday September 03, 2018 @10:10PM (#17906126)
I think you mean default DNS resolver, not root DNS. The DNS root servers are something completely different.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_name_server

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Re:Amazon Sets Its Sights on the $88B Online Ad Market by Ahl4Gom6 on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @06:18AM (#17907942)
They still get aggregate data that can be valuable. All the site visits that don't go through google search will still trigger a DNS lookup. Including geolocation.
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