Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri...
by markstos on Friday February 15, 2019 @09:38PM
(#19176665)
We expect that Chromecast connects to Google's servers when you are using Google services. By forcing you to use their DNS service, they can track every non-Google DNS query you make as well, which is all tied to your IP address. It is a form of surveillance of everything that you do on your Chromecast, for which there is no explicit consent.
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/62273/can-dns-s...
It is similar in some ways to Facebook tracking users across the internet through Facebook "Like" and "Connect" buttons across the internet, even when the user's aren't on the Facebook site and did not opt-in to having their browsing tracked by Facebook outside of Facebook.
Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri...
by kllrnohj on Saturday February 16, 2019 @01:13PM
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> By forcing you to use their DNS service, they can track every non-Google DNS query you make as well, which is all tied to your IP address.
It's a Chromecast. You literally can't make non-Google queries on it at all in the first place.
So what, exactly, is the privacy concern here? What specific flow of events does the Chromecast using 8.8.8.8 impact your privacy?
Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri...
by markstos on Sunday February 17, 2019 @06:44AM
(#19183967)
Chromecast allows casting any tab, with any URL, not just Google properties.
Especially if you're using it to, say, watch YouTube, as Paul Vixie was.
Chromecast connecting to Google is not a "secret requirements that go far beyond user expectations." Expecting a cloud-connected product to continue to work when you've randomly blacklisted IPs that belong to that company is, however, an unreasonable expectation.