[LINK] OpenDNS?

[Fernando Cassia]

On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Martin Barry <marty at supine.com> wrote:
> So, there are a few "open resolver" possibilities but the two biggest and
> best know and Google's "Public DNS"¹ and the aforementioned OpenDNS.
>
> ¹https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/
>
> Both are a way of routing around unreliable or slow resolvers provided by
> your network provider. Beyond that they offer two very different
> propositions.

I've been using OpenDNS for years. Works realiably and I don't want to
give metadata about the sites which I access to my ISP.

Google DNS is a whole different proposition. Since when you use Google
or GMail or Youtube google has a session cookie, it can already match
your IP to your identity (for as long as the session is active, which
can be forever due to the Google.com toolbar at the top of the
google.com page showing your identity, and G+ integration for comments
into youtube).

So given the above, when you add Google DNS you're giving Google NOT
ONLY who you are and your IP, but also info about all the sites
(domains) that you access. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to
figure that Google can easily link the two sources of information
together to get very useful (for them) metadata.

So I don't recommend Google DNS AT ALL. Unless you use Google DNS but
no google accounts/services at all (which is a difficult endeavour
considering you might want to comment on a blog hosted at blogger.com
once a while).

Just my $0.02
FC



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