A Chromecast isn't an agent with free will and intentions, the user is. When I set my DNS settings to a different DNS server than Google's, my preference is just that: different from Google's.
I'm clearly meaning the choices made by the Chromecast via the product and service owners and creators. The thing is a consumer IoT device with a lot of blackbox going on. It's consuming the DNS service to provide another service to the end user. How that happens is trivia to most people.
I think it's fine to want that configurable and maybe, maybe even expect or ask for it.. But I believe concocting conspiracy and assigning malicious intent so readily, as many are, displays either an ignorance of how products get built for the mass market or a feigning of such. As others who have worked on IoT devices have pointed out, there are rather valid user experience concerns behind baking these "preferences" into the products.
Obviously, I knew what you meant. You just expressed it in a humorous (and, I think, not entirely valid) way, granting agency to the device rather than people.
> As others who have worked on IoT devices have pointed out, there are rather valid user experience concerns behind baking these "preferences" into the products.
Which is something that I have not denied. What I assert is that there absolutely needs to be a way to change that behavior if users wish. The lack of that ability is, in my opinion, something that is harmful, both technically and socially.
