I think half these nonsense articles are just AI driven adbots If you start seeing articles like it from NOTthatoneguysteve you just mind your business
On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 9:16 AM Josh Luthman <[email protected]> wrote: > Because in this country the ISP is simply evil. There's no logic to it, > it's just a blind opinion. > > I'm sure the cellco is doing some sort of inspection/manipulation. But > it's perfectly acceptable if they do it. > > The kids with no networking knowledge love these articles and the writers > love the ad revenue. > > On Sun, Jan 18, 2026 at 9:01 AM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Why are media people so convinced that ISPs are snooping your DNS queries >> and even manipulating DNS to redirect you? >> >> https://www.howtogeek.com/your-router-is-probably-using-the-wrong-dns/ >> >> >> >> Also the assumption that a small ISP can’t run DNS servers that can >> handle the load (it’s not difficult). The only argument I can see is that >> Google or Cloudflare has a bigger user base and is more likely to have >> results cached. >> >> >> >> They never seem to offer any evidence that ISPs are actually tracking you >> though your DNS queries or manipulating the results, they just assume >> because it’s technically possible, it must be happening. Throw in a little >> “all ISPs are evil” bias. It reminds me of all the warnings about public >> USB charging stations and “juice jacking” despite no actual reports of this >> happening. >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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