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Google, Cloudflare & Cisco Will Poison DNS to Stop Piracy Block Circumvention * TorrentFreak
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this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2024
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ELI5…?
DNS is when your browser asks where to find a website. You enter Lemmy.One in your browser, and your browser asks the DNS resolver the address of the computer the website is hosted on.
Most people will use their internet company's DNS, and it sounds like France ordered these companies to block some illegal streaming sites by having the DNS server point to a page saying it's blocked instead of to the website server.
More technical users changed their settings to get DNS from google, Cloudflare, etc instead of the internet company, so now France is going to make those companies block the sites too.
ELI5: France is lying to your computer when it asks where to find the websites
Thank you! That makes much more sense.