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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's usually ISP specific.

Some ISPs in the USA and Germany have been doing it. This is why DNS over HTTPs exists to bypass those blocks.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I always thought they exist because privacy. Regular old DNS requests are not encrypted so even if you send a request to 9.9.9.9 your ISP can still see it.