Re:Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Sunday May 29, 2022 @05:20PM
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I believe there was a proposal for something like this a while back, before the DoH we see now. IIRC, the idea was that DNS information could be contained inside the web page, maybe enclosed in a tag. Addresses for ad servers perhaps.
Few of these ideas can be expected to work unless Evil, LLC controls the program the end user chooses to read the web. When an advertsing services company is also the majority share "web browser" vendor, then ideas like this become feasible. Whereas if web users can choose any client to access the web,[FN1] then these ideas would be non-starters. The open source text-only browser I am using is not going to read the IP address of an ad server embedded in a web page and connect to it automatically. Even if it did, I would simply edit the source code to disable that behaviour and re-compile.
1. In theory they can but in practice they generally don't.
Few of these ideas can be expected to work unless Evil, LLC controls the program the end user chooses to read the web. When an advertsing services company is also the majority share "web browser" vendor, then ideas like this become feasible. Whereas if web users can choose any client to access the web,[FN1] then these ideas would be non-starters. The open source text-only browser I am using is not going to read the IP address of an ad server embedded in a web page and connect to it automatically. Even if it did, I would simply edit the source code to disable that behaviour and re-compile.
1. In theory they can but in practice they generally don't.