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Google Receives Piracy Shield Orders to Block Pirate Sites in Public DNS * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
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[–] 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I mean, as far as I know, DNS is decentralized. Anyone can host their own DNS server, or change which server their network/device uses. Google's is just very commonly used because 8.8.8.8 is easy to remember, but there are thousands of others run by entities big and small, and there's nothing stopping you from running your own (assuming you manage to get a hold of a static IPv4)

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is the correct answer. The only thing I would add is some devices don't allow changing the DNS IPs and are hard coded to 8.8.8.8 so Google blocking sites via DNS is still an issue. Of course you could intercept these requests, but with DNS over HTTPS becoming more popular, i would imagine that device manufactures will also start to do certificate pinning as well to prevent people from using their own DNS server.

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  • [+] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Do I need a static ip if I plan to only use it locally from my home network?

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