• QualifiedKitten@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      Note that this may occasionally interfere with things. I was having trouble with in-flight WiFi last time I flew, and I once I switched the Private DNS setting back to Automatic, it suddenly worked.

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        1 hour ago

        True. Public wifi doesn’t like it when you use your own DNS servers cause it makes it slightly harder for them to spy on you and inject ads into web pages.

        Thankfully all you gotta to is switch the DNS setting to Off (or Automatic), then re-enable it when you’re home. Takes 10 seconds.

      • Amanduh@lemm.ee
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        11 hours ago

        Same with googling things and clicking on the first few links because they’re advertisement links

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            8 hours ago

            The point wasn’t about how cool the search engine was. It was to highlight another maybe unexpected side effect of blocking the dns. Begone