On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:56:13 +0200
tito via Dng <dng@???> wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:43:02 +0200
> Didier Kryn <kryn@???> wrote:
>
> > Le 30/03/2025 à 14:18, Steve Litt a écrit :
> > >>     Good to know, but, for the moment I don't consider yet it
> > >> deserves
> > >> the burden to install and maintain my own DNS
> > > All unbound does is pass your dns queries up the chain. It's not
> > > authoritative. It's very, very simple, and solves the kinds of problems
> > > discussed in this thread.
> >
> >     So what is it that you want to achieve? I bet the ISP's DNS is just
> > refering to the very same root DNS as unbound is. So you guys what do
> > you suspect your ISP's DNS is doing?
>
> You can choose which queries to block and which to forward;
> You can bundle all queries from your home network so that is more difficult to profile who connected where;
> The ISP's dns is very interested in your queries because most of the time
> they offer you also a email address for free where they can send you all kinds
> of advertising, the root DNS may not be so much interested in that.
>
> >     The only thing which makes sense to me is the possibility to block
> > or divert the javascript requests to the AD servers and to cloudfront.
>
> Disable javascript?
>
> > But I'm not sure it would work to barely block all that shit. The AD
>
> You will never be able to block all that shit, but I can tell
> it does a rather big difference when I read a newspaper
> web site with this rustical adblocking (through /etc/hosts and unbound)
> or without it.

That's also the reason because DNS over HTTPS is pushed:
if every program does its own queries directly you have lost
control and cannot filter nor block them anymore.

> Ciao,
> Tito
>
> > industry is not that stupid. Already they know when you switch to
> > another window and wait untill the scope in on the proper window to
> > deliver their ADs; they know when you turn the sound off, so that you
> > need to lower it to a inaudible level instead.
> >
> >     A better approach is to be implemented inside the web browser: let
> > the AD machinery believe you watch it all but actually divert all the
> > junk. The Duckduckgo browser on Android does this kind of thing, though
> > it still displays a blank space in the place of ADs; so it's possible. I
> > don't expect Firefox to implement this because they seem tied to Google,
> > but maybe others like Palemoon.
> >
> > --     Didier
> >
> >
>
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