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

Re:Firefox Installs non-free binaries from Cisco and Google ... by growse on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @09:48AM (#21991881)

This phenomenon is so popular it has its own section on the "DNS Hijacking" wikipedia page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_hijacking#Manipulation_by_...

Unless they explicitly say so, your ISP is not spending a boat-load of money running a DNS server for you to use because they're nice. They're not even doing it because you're paying them for a service. They're doing it because they can monetize the data and serve you ads.

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Re:Firefox Installs non-free binaries from Cisco and Google ... by mondoshawan on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @10:47AM (#21992400)

They're doing it because it's been a standard ISP practice for years because most people don't run their own recursive resolver and have no skills to do so. End result is that to provide an internet connection, you have to also provide a DNS resolver, full stop. Monetizing and ads came later when business stopped caring about the RFCs.

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Re:Firefox Installs non-free binaries from Cisco and Google ... by growse on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @11:35AM (#21992931)

> End result is that to provide an internet connection, you have to also provide a DNS resolver, full stop

Nope. You have to provide the address of a resolver, but that doesn't mean you have to run one yourself. There's nothing stopping the ISPs shipping a standard DHCP config that points their customers at (for example) 8.8.8.8, or 1.1.1.1, or whoever.

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