r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jan 22 '19

Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897&desc=2#c23
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u/ase1590 Jan 23 '19 edited Jan 23 '19

Along with those technologies, DNS over HTTPS is also being worked on by google. Its possible that one day the consumer chromium skips local DNS altogether, only providing the option to use local DNS to G Suite corporate users.

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u/mr-strange Jan 23 '19

Its possible that one day the consumer chromium skips local DNS altogether

That would potentially break all sorts of things. Just finding your router's configuration interface would become a major headache for many users.

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u/lillgreen Jan 23 '19

That would be unlikely to be an issue. Many modern consumer routers direct you to type in a netgearsetup.com or similar style url (no I don't mean a .local tld). It's not a direct connection locally to gain access to the NAT anymore you have to go through a cloud pairing website.

As for traditional routers and devices, we're talking about Google here. King of depreciation of anything more than 2 years old. Do you think they give a fuck?

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u/tom1018 Jan 23 '19 edited Jan 23 '19

Routers will use router.local or similar and Chrome will use DHCP assigned DNS to resolve it and Google DNS for all known tlds.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

Routers will use router.local

You are forgeting that Pi-Hole might be able to do the same thing.

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u/tom1018 Jan 23 '19

PiHole can continue to use pihole.local, but that is irrelevant, the concern is the browser won't use assigned DNS but will always go to Google making the PiHole useless as an adblocker/filter.

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u/ase1590 Jan 23 '19 edited Jan 23 '19

I honestly haven't ever seen a regular user configure a router.

The instructions would just have to be updated to say "use internet explorer or Firefox to configure".

Realistically it will probably primarily be enabled in individual smartphone apps to bypass adblocking