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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by jimsmart on Sunday February 17, 2019 @09:21PM (#19188215)
In this instance, I think it's got less to do with harvesting data from the lookups, and more to do with ensuring advertising gets shown?

i.e. I suspect Google force their own DNS so that one cannot so easily use e.g. PiHole to filter out DNS lookups for servers that stream e.g. YouTube adverts.

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