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Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by old-gregg on Friday June 05, 2020 @04:41PM (#23433714)
If you mistype a hostname in the browser and DNS lookup fails, they return a valid IP for a landing page with an ad. AT&T doesn't do it for my service, but at some point I had it with Time Warner cable, IIRC. You fix it by setting your DNS to (haha) Google's.
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Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by gerdesj on Friday June 05, 2020 @05:11PM (#23434019)
Try 9.9.9.9 and 1.1.1.1. There are many other external DNS services that don't break AD and eDirectory. You can also run your own but I'll grant you that isn't for everyone.
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Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by ummonk on Friday June 05, 2020 @05:14PM (#23434052)
It does a yahoo search for me which includes ads if I use their dns servers.

But yes, this is why you use the DNS service of your choice instead of whatever dhcp returns.

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