Well, I’m now using pihole for blocking + unbound for recursive resolving

Um… yes I understand what DNS does. Really?

I’m not trying to challenge you in any way. My disconnect in understanding is what unbound does and why I would want to use it over the built-in pihole FTLDNS. What are its advantages?

EDIT: I’ve answered my own question, unbound queries root name servers directly instead of using DNS providers. This is interesting. New question, what is the advantage of being my own DNS provider? Privacy from my ISP (who can just see the IPs that I am connecting to, anyway)?

Okay but what are the advantages of doing this?

What are the advantages over pihole?

EDIT: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/ this page has a good explanation

I have a pihole serving DNS for my local network that is configured to use unfiltered Quad9 for upstream.

I support this because most all cloudflare websites require browser fingerprinting otherwise they will not serve you the page. The moment I enable the jShelter addon, I am cut off from a significant portion of the internet

Can’t say the n word?!?? Republican viewpoints are being SiLeNcEd!!!

🙄

The majority of reddit content is bots, shills, and astroturfing

Reading comprehension

But saying that a country can’t do anything about espionage unless they pass that law is unrealistic.

Who said that?

No I’m not conflating anything, you’re just moving the goalpost…

from

accountable for data privacy and misinformation/election interference violations.

to

ownership of media and telecommunication infrastructure

People can still do murder even though its illegal and most murderers are never caught, so we shouldn’t have laws making murder illegal because it doesn’t “solve” murder

would reduce not eliminate the problem

🙂 perfect is the enemy of good. I don’t think we’re going to “eliminate” espionage, something that has existed for all of written history…

I would expect a meaningful data privacy law would involve forcing the client software to be audited to ensure they aren’t collecting the information in the first place?

They are while doing business in the USA

They all suck, yeah. I think banning individual social media services is not the solution. The solution is to create meaningful laws that hold any company, Chinese or American, accountable for data privacy and misinformation/election interference violations.

So what is considered perfectly fine for Facebook and Twitter to do, got it

You don’t get to make requests lol

It’s so infuriating, but when has CNN ever attempted to appear objective? They have been blatant controlled opposition for a while now. Their playbook is to platform misinformation and repackage far right talking points into words that are palatable to liberal and centrist viewers.

you can tell whoever wrote this has never run that command

Uh… isn’t that a good thing?

Ah okay, we are just describing the same thing 👍 I agree, this will be our future

I don’t think that answered my question, but maybe I just don’t understand what you mean.

I could see a world where media outlets and publishers sign their published content in order to make it verifiable what the source of the content is, for a hypothetical example, AP news could sign photographs taken by a journalist, and if it is a reputable source that people trust to not be creating misinformation, then they can trust the signed content.

I don’t really see a way that digital signatures can be applied to content created and posted by untrusted users in order to verify that they aren’t AI generated or misinformation.