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1. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2017 05:29:19 EDT Bob Mottram
   Added a scary warning if you choose Google as a DNS resolver on !Freedombone. https://social.freedombone.net/attachment/49910
   1. kat (kat@quitter.se)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2017 09:44:07 EDT kat

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      @bob I'm not sure it is their main purpose.
      1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2017 10:00:40 EDT lnxw48a1

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         @kat @bob I'm sure #Google's original main purpose was to prevent local ISPs from hijacking #DNS requests and sending them through a #Yahoo based search page for revenue enhancement. (both #ATT and #Verizon are really bad about this).
         1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2017 10:02:41 EDT lnxw48a1

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            Which is not to say that Google isn't happy to take advantage and acquire exactly that information.
         2. kat (kat@quitter.se)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2017 10:49:44 EDT kat

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            @lnxw48a1 @bob or just making sure their users i.e. the internet,  had access to a reasonable fair and accurate resolver.