> Google has already wedged themselves in as the "gold standard" dns provider.
Run. Your. Own. Resolver [full stop]
I'm both amazed and devastated how even seasoned privacy hackers will just pop 8.8.8.8 into their respective resolv.confs. What are they thinking?
I know how people tell stories about how 8.8.8.8 (or 1.1.1.1) are so nice and fast (which simply sounds like they are mirroring the advertising for these services by the letter), but honestly, that doesn't matter: The first visit to any site is slow, and has been slow for years (downloading all those megabytes from a dozen origins simply takes its time); waiting another half-second to have your own resolver look after some unknown hostname – which will be cached, locally, much faster than anything 8.8.8.8 could do for you – really isn't worth spilling your entire browsing history onto Google's reception desk. Not for me, anyway.
Run. Your. Own. Resolver [full stop]
I'm both amazed and devastated how even seasoned privacy hackers will just pop 8.8.8.8 into their respective resolv.confs. What are they thinking?
I know how people tell stories about how 8.8.8.8 (or 1.1.1.1) are so nice and fast (which simply sounds like they are mirroring the advertising for these services by the letter), but honestly, that doesn't matter: The first visit to any site is slow, and has been slow for years (downloading all those megabytes from a dozen origins simply takes its time); waiting another half-second to have your own resolver look after some unknown hostname – which will be cached, locally, much faster than anything 8.8.8.8 could do for you – really isn't worth spilling your entire browsing history onto Google's reception desk. Not for me, anyway.