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by khabaal 2653 days ago
> redirecting to ads on an unknown domain

I can cleary see that, in states like iran or china, getting redirected to somewhere you did not chose to go is really problematic, but getting redirected to ads by your own provider, does this happen in your country?

In germany, i guess, this would be quite illegal for a provider to do and be considered as attacking the ingetrity of the dns system for personal gain.

>If you connect to something fronted by CloudFlare your ISP can see you connecting to CF, if they provide your DNS then they can see what you're connecting to that's fronted by CF. A subtle yet important distinction.

Well, most of the time, you would connect to ips that are not fronted by CF servers, so theres nothing to gain there.

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In the cases where I’ve seen this happen, the DNS provider is rewriting NXDOMAIN responses. So, when you make a typo, you hit a “helpful” error page that has ads and tracking in it.
DNS hijacking is extremely common with ISPs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_hijacking#Manipulation_by_...