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0 pointsmanigandham7y ago0 comments

> Would the small risk of one of these few people blowing the whistle be worth it for Google,

No. Public DNS isn't even 1 decade old and Google already has massive insight from google analytics, adsense/adwords, the doubleclick network, android and store, chrome browser, chrome os, google search, google maps, gmail, youtube, google play, google fiber, google fi, google cloud platform, and all the various web properties that carry 1st-party cookies that easily get around Safari's misguided cookie war and have GDPR consent.

Trying to secretly sneak in some crappy DNS data is not worth it at all.

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teddyh7y ago· 2 in thread

Well, that may be obvious to you, but it’s not obvious to me, and (here’s the kicker), neither of us can know for sure. Only very few specific people at Google are in a position to absolutely know whether this is happening, and they can’t tell anyone.

manigandhamOP7y ago

>> Only very few specific people at Google are in a position

Why do you think you know this for sure then?

teddyh7y ago

You must be confusing me with someone else; I explicitly said that “neither of us can know for sure.”.

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