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.
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