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Microsoft plans to lock down Windows DNS like never before. Here’s how. (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Zotora@programming.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] plz1@lemmy.ml 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

With the shady path they've been on lately, I wouldn't be surprised if they locked down the home editions to only using their servers, so they can use the data points/telemetry to sell ads, etc.

[–] variants@possumpat.io 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They want to get around people's pi holes

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 months ago

They couldn't give less of a shit about the 7 people in the world that use pi-holes