Re:Parler’s epic fail: A crash course on running your own se...
by TheRealSteel on Sunday February 14, 2021 @02:00PM
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Surely it'd be trivial to increase the user's speed to Netflix servers if they've visited Fast.com in the last three minutes or similar?
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Re:Parler’s epic fail: A crash course on running your own se...
by 542458 on Sunday February 14, 2021 @02:06PM
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Thanks to TLS, Netflix and Fast are indistinguishable. All your ISP knows is the IP address you’re talking to. They’d only know that you visited Fast in particular if you were using your ISP’s DNS, which you shouldn’t be using anyways :)
Re:Parler’s epic fail: A crash course on running your own se...
by tomatotomato37 on Sunday February 14, 2021 @02:48PM
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It's indistinguishable from an protocol perspective, not a data analysis perspective. Or to put it more practically, if a large data stream from Netflix lasts more than 10 seconds, it's video.
Re:Parler’s epic fail: A crash course on running your own se...
by cortesoft on Sunday February 14, 2021 @02:10PM
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Except SNI will leak the domain name of the host you are connecting to.
Re:Parler’s epic fail: A crash course on running your own se...
by TheRealSteel on Sunday February 14, 2021 @06:08PM
(#26137176)
Makes sense, networking was never my strong point. To be fair, alot of people will be using their ISP's DNS, but at least this is avoidable, even if you have to specifically take steps.
Re:Parler’s epic fail: A crash course on running your own se...
by Lammy on Sunday February 14, 2021 @02:11PM
(#26135172)
Personally I trust my ISP DNS a hell of a lot more than Google/Cloudflare. Why would I want to give them even more data about me?
Re:Parler’s epic fail: A crash course on running your own se...
by jen20 on Monday February 15, 2021 @01:49AM
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Wow, where do you live?! Across the US and UK, I’ve consistently found home-ISP-supplied DNS to be slow, spammy and unreliable.
Re:Parler’s epic fail: A crash course on running your own se...
by nyx_ on Sunday February 14, 2021 @02:40PM
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I've had ISP DNS servers that redirect NXDOMAIN responses to spammy "search" pages full of sponsored crap and banner ads.
There's always OpenNIC, DNS.watch, or Quad9 if you're after something that isn't operated by a creepy megacorp.