Reply to post: Re: DNS is broken

What's CNAME of your game? This DNS-based tracking defies your browser privacy defenses

Ben Tasker

Re: DNS is broken

> Honestly, if CNAMEs become restricted, they'll just end up using regular A/AAAA records.

Or, indeed, a DNAME (giving the same flexibility as a CNAME, just with a less commonly known feature).

When that gets blocked, no drama, just add some NS records and delegate a zone out to $advertiser's nameservers

As you say, the solution isn't technical one - limiting CNAMEs to acting like an alias breaks a lot, and fixes precisely nothing. What's needed is for the underlying business model to stop being viable, because of meaningful enforcement (we already have the laws)

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