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DNS Spoof Adware

Someone recently boasted about adware which can inject ads from most networks, and using DNS spoofing would make the providers think that the ads were on a website owned by me (i.e. www.myscamsite.com), while the ads are actually on a normal website (i.e. www.stackoverflow.com). This sounds dubious to me, because most websites these days use HTTPS to prevent DNS spoofing.

My questions:

  • Could this method work on HTTP sites?
  • Could this method work on HTTPS sites (somehow?)

I know the ISP's did it to routers years ago, but that was before HTTPS.