[matt4077]

That's one of these arguments that may attack the parent in isolation, but makes absolutely no sense in the context of the thread they were replying to.

Because if you assume an attacker to have control over DNS, the security model of giving permission on a per-domain basis is broken anyway, and the initial concern with granting google this access is already subsumed in your general paranoia.

[ec109685]

No it isn’t. TLS helps ensure you aren’t talking to a rogue server and HSTS ensures you can be spoofed in the first http request to a new server.