next move is theirs.. knight to queen's dns-over-https

Neat! Trying this in a few minutes. Be lovely having everything go through my local Pihole VM.

Unfortunately the monkey's paw would curl here and using DNS other than that provided by your ISP would become illegal.

(I know there's a difference between your devices using their network to access the internet and your "purchased" (licensed software running on) your device using your network to access the internet - but the monkey doesn't care)

Counter point on that, that might affect the legality of DNS over HTTPS

RFC 2132 says DHCP option 6 provides "a list of Domain Name System name servers available to the client". That's a MAY use, not a MUST use. You are welcome to block DNS requests to outside servers if you prefer.

DNS over ssl.

Could you block DoH entirely on the network level and cause it to fallback? I guess you'd have to have a list of common DoH IP addresses to block.

Because its recording every single word you say waiting for the trigger word to send the black van to your house (the trigger word is opposite of "lick dear leaders boots").

All of these devices are spyware.

I don’t know exactly. That’s the problem.

Likely audio being scraped and data being sold to advertisers.

Try talking about a pink silicone spatula and see what happens to your Google ecosystem.

Same experience here. DNS server was omething like goooooooogle.com for me.

Blocking them made the devices malfunction, I believe the speakers werent fully aware of each other anymore, so speaker groups got messed up in all sorts of ways.

I use Bluesound speakers and modules now.

To be fair, IoT devices should be making exactly zero DNS requests, unless maybe you set up a proper domain name for your Home Assistant server.