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[–]raven9 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Most modern corporate browsers do not let you take the risk of visiting a site that has no DNS entry.

That is not about preventing you from taking a risk. It is about preventing you from avoiding surveillance and censorship.

It is like having your friend's phone number in a country with a state controlled phone system that prevents you dialing them direct. Instead, the system requires you must call their "directory service" first and tell them the name of your friend you want to call and you can only make the call when the directory service authorizes it by giving you your friends number.

Of course that puts the directory service in the unique position of being able to log the phone numbers of everyone you call and even to refuse to provide you with the phone number you require so you cannot make the call at all even when you already knew the number because the directory service did not authorise you.

That is exactly what is going on with DNS. When the big tech browser developers removed your ability to connect to a web server directly by it's ip address that right there is the malicious intent of American deep state surveillance and censorship. The browser literally refuses to connect unless it receives "authorization" to do so from the DNS server. So DNS services get to decide whether or not you can connect to websites. They can even feed your browser alternate ip addresses that connect you to "deep fake" websites that masquerades as the website you wanted to connect to or man in the middle websites that just monitor your traffic before forwarding it to the real server.

[–]Cyb3r_08 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

is there a way to bypass dns and connect to websites through their direct ip?