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Re:17-Year-Old Student Exposes Germany's 'Secret' Pirate Sit... by hobofan on Friday August 23, 2024 @11:53AM (#41330029)
Most stock ISP routers in Germany I've seen allow you to set custom DNS in a straightforward manner.

And even if they don't, for a few years now there is a law that guarantees you the right to choose your own router (because previously we had quite bad bundling that forced you to rent the ISPs router), so ISPs can't lock you in like that.

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Re:17-Year-Old Student Exposes Germany's 'Secret' Pirate Sit... by Asmod4n on Friday August 23, 2024 @12:35PM (#41330445)
There are two types of routers consumers get here. Those where you can nearly change everything regarding DHCP and such and those given you by cable companies where you can’t even change the IP address of said router.

The latter usually allows you to disable its IPv4 DHCP sever though but enforce itself as the IPv6 DNS server across your network, which can’t be disabled on your own.

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