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TIL! This upsets me more than the Chromecast using Google's DNS.

I barely use Chrome anymore (just for testing really) but the thought that any domain I wish to go to can be overridden by the browser by default - that's scary.

I mean what if Google doesn't like your website's content. They can block it on their DNS server and 99.999% of Chrome users would think something was wrong with your site.

Thank you, I hate it.

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I was thinking about buying a better network device for home and have VLANs and ACLs just to take control of my internet again. It is pretty annoying that Google not only trying to track me everywhere but actively overriding system wide settings to be able to get information what sites I am visiting.

You don’t necessarily need a better networking device if your current router is supported by openwrt/lede

I was looking into that yesterday. How can I disable forwarding in Dnsmasq for certain domain names? Maybe I should run a local resolver server myself instead of forwarding the DNS requests to 3rd parties and do it that way with ACLs? Let me know if you have detailed documentation about how to use OpenWRT for these.

In theory, couldn't Firefox's certificate store blacklist the TLS certificate your website uses, with the same user-confusing result?

I mean in theory your web browser doesn't have to respect the address bar, it can do whatever the fuck it wants. The point is what Chrome is already doing is not good behaviour.

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