On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Martin Barry <[email protected]> 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 -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un Acto Revolucionario - George Orwell _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
