For what it’s worth, at least in Chromium’s implementation:
- The hosts file should still take effect (Chromium can read the hosts file and parse it already.)
- The DoH upgrading should not override your default resolver. It works by having a lookup table of providers that support DoH and using DoH if your provider supports it. The list can be seen here: https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/net/dns/dns_util.cc?q=D... (note: this URL may become stale over time; there’s ways to improve this but I am on mobile at the moment.)
Google is an ad company and has the largest browser market share by far.
How is this not abuse?
Google can claim that things like AMP are not intended to rope us into their walled garden, that it's all about improving performance. But at the end of the day, most of the moves they make further their goal of serving more ads.
In twenty years I wouldn't be too terribly surprised if independent websites are largely gone. Disappeared like IRC, RSS, blogging on your own website, and the like.
I'm sorry you disagree. I just don't like what I see happening.
My Chrome browser still perfectly blocks ads. The day it stops doing that, then you have a valid point. Until then, it's mostly fear mongering and misrepresenting the situation.
- The hosts file should still take effect (Chromium can read the hosts file and parse it already.)
- The DoH upgrading should not override your default resolver. It works by having a lookup table of providers that support DoH and using DoH if your provider supports it. The list can be seen here: https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/net/dns/dns_util.cc?q=D... (note: this URL may become stale over time; there’s ways to improve this but I am on mobile at the moment.)