28 Jan
2026
28 Jan
'26
1:32 p.m.
On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 05:10:08PM -0600, Warren Kumari via NANOG wrote:
It has been expanded (co-opted?!) to also get people to a close pizza parlor, and now also is being used (abused?) to implement content restrictions.
These were not part of the original design, and so it's not surprising if they don't work well for that...
Concur. There's also an obvious disconnect here between network engineers who care about operating in as close to "correctly" (whatever that means at the moment, and of course we've debated that for decades) as they can possibly get, and people who only care about making as much money as they can as fast as they can by selling off the privacy of Internet users to the parasites in the data broker ecosystem. ---rsk