Which DNS
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I mean, it will only take a matter of time before your browsing characteristics will take a part in your google search result listings. And unless you want to start ad-blocking google itself (probably not a bad idea the way things are going), I'd rather them not have that extra layer of snooping.
Chrome is just as bad, hence why I'll never use that either. Infact why anyone uses chrome when SRware Iron is the same browser without the crapware.
i think with DNS, there is far too much crap to sift through to actually make analysing it worth while. every single external element you see in a webpage has to be looked up. you could browse nothing but these forums for an hour but by the end of that session you'd have hundreds of lookups to domains hosting all the signatures/images. the DNS provider doesn't know if you've actively visited those domains or not. this information is worthless.
or maybe i'm just being naive??
or maybe i'm just being naive??
Way to over-react. lol
Google's DNS servers are fast and reliable, which is why I use them.
Couldn't care less if they know how many times I've wanted to resolve pornhub's domain name.
Says who?
They've been up and running for, what, a couple weeks now?In the world of the Internet they've still got several years worth of proving to do if they really want to be seen as fast and reliable.
Don't choose a DNS server based on other peoples experiences. Use a DNS benchmark yourself and choose those which perform best. I use http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm for a benchmark test, although you have to manually add in the google DNS servers as they are not there by default. I'm on virgin media, and that benchmark showed that their DNS servers far outperformed all other DNS servers for me.
I tired that - based on that Open DNS is slightly faster than my ISP's but Google's are rubbish.
I had similar results but my ISP was top. Google was quite far down the list for me.
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This. Both OpenDNS and Google DNS were slower than my ISP.
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I'll just add my usual condemnation of open DNS to this thread as well, I will never ever use a DNS provider which hijacks nxdomain (yes I know you can turn it off, but by default they're breaking part of the DNS specification for commercial gain which is just hideous stuff and I will not in any way be part of encouraging it).
I'd much prefer google logging my DNS requests (and again I'll point out that google's privacy policy is at least openly available and fairly transparent) to open DNS. That said, I have a decent ISP with decent name servers which don't analyse requests, don't break the DNS specification and are on net so consistently faster than alternatives. If I didn't I'd likely have stuffed a cacheing server on one of my VPS's or something to use as a primary.
I'd much prefer google logging my DNS requests (and again I'll point out that google's privacy policy is at least openly available and fairly transparent) to open DNS. That said, I have a decent ISP with decent name servers which don't analyse requests, don't break the DNS specification and are on net so consistently faster than alternatives. If I didn't I'd likely have stuffed a cacheing server on one of my VPS's or something to use as a primary.
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Quite obviously, unless your ISP horribly underspecs their server they'll almost always be quick as they're on net. Unless your ISP is one of those which outsources it's DNS to a specialist provider.