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| They deserve to be compensated but... I still won't use them. I fully understand they provide a free service and that DNS redirection is probably one of their main sources of revenue. I don't like DNS redirection and try to avoid any server that uses it, but I wouldn't condemn OpenDNS for it.
I condemn ISPs because you are paying for their service. Paying for it to work properly as the protocol describes, right out of the box. Many would expect that. But let's see...DHCP give you your ISP DNS servers because DHCP did its job(by default) and now instead of getting proper errors, you get to see your ISP double dip.
This is opt out because you're opted in the moment DHCP obtains your ISP DNS servers. In OpenDNS's case, you have to manually opt-in by pointing to their servers and they still provide the standard ISP opt-out option after that.
I would still use another alternative DNS that doesn't redirect. I wonder if the name makes OpenDNS so popular. I do tend to wonder, given the number of other alternative DNS servers. I use Level3's myself. Nice clean 404 error for any app. Even those that don't use cookies. |
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| said by Selenia:I would still use another alternative DNS that doesn't redirect. I wonder if the name makes OpenDNS so popular. I do tend to wonder, given the number of other alternative DNS servers. I use Level3's myself. Nice clean 404 error for any app. Even those that don't use cookies. You can use OpenDNS and still get clean 404 errors:
»You can use OpenDNS without redirection to ad page ...
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| said by fAcEtIOUs:said by Selenia:I would still use another alternative DNS that doesn't redirect. I wonder if the name makes OpenDNS so popular. I do tend to wonder, given the number of other alternative DNS servers. I use Level3's myself. Nice clean 404 error for any app. Even those that don't use cookies. You can use OpenDNS and still get clean 404 errors: » You can use OpenDNS without redirection to ad page ... But options like that would be tracked by cookies. Correct me if I'm wrong on that, but that would still make it an issue for various apps that debug based on the errors they receive(like by purging an address from their cache) because they will not be using cookies like a browser would. |
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| I think it is actually tracked by your IP address. I have a server at home that keeps OpenDNS up to date on whenever my dynamic IP changes, so it's not an issue for me and then I get some cool stats to look at. I still use their redirection pages because sometimes they are useful for me and I also appreciate the service. |
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