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I switched my router to use Google DNS. There's been a lot of chatter about the privacy implications, that Google will use the data to know every site you visit and be more Big Brother-ish. My view on Google is that so far it's been very benevolent with its data, and mostly protects its customers' privacy and an open web. (Maybe that'll change, but they have a strong business interest in keeping it that way.) Previously I was using my ISP's - Comcast's - DNS. Is that better? They know what sites I'm visiting anyway. They can throttle my bandwidth (Google can't). With NBC in their portfolio, they'll soon have potential conflicts of interest that are much more troubling than Google's. And ISPs' DNSs tend to redirect unresolved URLs to advertising. If Google redirects me to a search page, it's where I wanted to be anyway.