Firefox Installs non-free binaries from Cisco and Google again (2018)

Re:Firefox Installs non-free binaries from Cisco and Google ... by basch on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @09:38AM (#21991799)

Most people use their ISP provided DNS should be the null hypothesis / status quo. I wouldnt expect someone to prove that claim. I would expect someone to prove the claim "most people change their DNS from the ISP default to google."

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Re:Firefox Installs non-free binaries from Cisco and Google ... by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @10:22AM (#21992153)

I thought they were questioning whether ISPs in general routinely hijack DNS. I've not heard of this happening in the UK, but haven't scoped around looking for it.

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Re:Firefox Installs non-free binaries from Cisco and Google ... by basch on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @10:37AM (#21992288)

It was normal in the US for an ISP to return a "helpful" page when you entered a nonexistant domain. It sort of looked like a search results page. In reality it usually turned into a page of ads. Each ISP may have been different with the volume of actual search results they returned on the page.

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Re:Firefox Installs non-free binaries from Cisco and Google ... by jfk13 on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @11:24AM (#21992796)

I've seen things like that in the UK, too; it's certainly not a US-only practice.

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