Sorry if this is a dumb question, but how important is using one of the encrypted DNS services from the megathread? Iโve just been using Googleโs DNS servers directly on my router, and have yet to have any issues. Have I just been lucky?
Also, ๐ซก to dbzer0 for migrating the community to Lemmy!
If you donโt want to spend money, use 1.1.1.1 at least. Itโs important.
And please donโt post the same for 3 times thanks.
Cloudflare already routes practically all of the internet, why would you explicitly want to also use their DNS?
Cloudflare is the fastest and well if you use one of the sites proxied by them then they have your data anyways
You have forgotten Akamaiโฆ Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazonโฆ Also Equinix and descendants of those once nationalized telephone and telegram operators, e.g. AT&T, BT, NTT, etc.
Upon a quick search here it seem cloudflares does roughly 1/5th of all websites measured. Still pretty huge. You can use whatever serves your own needs best, but I try to avoid using these kinds of megacorp โfreeโ services. Its not too hard to run your own authoritative DNS as well, since DNS is decentralized natively.
