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by 1vuio0pswjnm7 771 days ago
Advertising-supported nerds using the media to attack each other. The person making this coment about "BS jobs" is the one who started EasyDNS and OpenDNS and tried to compete with the pre-Chrome "Google toolbar" and later Chrome and eventually the "omnibox" for the privilege of injecting ads into the "user experience", and/or collecting data to support ad services. Google, with its control over being "default search engine", through any means possible (e.g., bribe/payola, etc.), felt threatened by OpenDNS and claimed OpenDNS was "intercepting Google queries" (because users involuntarily "chose" to send them to Google?) This is what lead to "Google Public DNS". It's another case of two companies fighting over who gets to annoy computer users with ads. Two companies that wanted to hijack NXDOMAIN for profit. Verisign had earlier tried it at the registry level.

Thought experiment: What if all "jobs" that aim to annoy computer users with ads, and provide "services" to do that, are BS. What if VC that fund these surveillance companies are BS, too. What does the computer user not funded by advertising and doing real work think of Google staff.

https://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/ietf/verisign-abuse.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_toolbar

https://www.wired.com/2008/02/webmasters-accuse-the-google-t...

https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2007/05/google-stashing-a...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/1566104/google-dell-br...

http://umbrella.cisco.com/blog/opendns-google-dns

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=974876

http://blog.opendns.com:80/2009/12/03/opendns-google-dns

1 comments

easyDNS and OpenDNS have completely different founders. You are probably confused with EveryDNS - was founded by the same person who started OpenDNS.
Apologies for the inadvertence. Thank you for the correction.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/canadian-firm-cau...