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In: Google|Personal Rants
3 Dec 2009There is no more important service on the Internet than DNS and probably no more important service so unloved and basically unknown by the masses. Period.
DNS queries tell everything about what we do online. From sites that we browse to, to what mail servers we use, to what software we have installed and tries to auto-update, etc.
Most people with above-average computer skills prefer to use OpenDNS on account that they prefer an open, unbiased service, and their CacheCheck service is great for basically resetting TTLs on the fly for all the millions of people using those DNS servers.
And now, Google would like some more information about me, you and everybody else, and would happily let us all use their Google Public DNS resolution service, which would truly help in their ad targeting efforts and whatnot.
I honest to G-d hope they don’t succeed and people don’t give up the last friggin’ piece of information Google doesn’t already own.
Outlet for giving a crap.