Turns out jblow's right. I banished OpenDNS because it was breaking basic DNS functionality to serve its ads (and is terrible privacy wise), this is the exact bad behaviour from ISP openDNS was supposed to help with.
But don't take my word for it and read this 2009 post from Stephane Bortzmeyer working at AFNIC in R&D in DNS security[1].
As jblow said the whole "no more ads" post reads as PR spin, same goes for your reply to him:
- growth numbers don't tell any story apart maybe from «many people read the "Open" part of the OpenDNS name and turn their brains off» [2].
- DNS nerds run their own DNS and keep away from openDNS for breaking DNS and invading privacy.
- not causing issues for most people doesn't disprove that it did cause issue for many people.
I do remember the browser landscape before openDNS and I'm quite happy to debunk your boasting attempt at being significant. The "search from the address bar" functionality has been around long before google chrome came to existence, actually it was in opera before openDNS existed and even better it allows to choose the search engine and use several with the use of a keyword. This was then added to firefox back in firefox 3. Again don't take my word for it and look a this 2008 post[3].
As jblow said the whole "no more ads" post reads as PR spin, same goes for your reply to him:
- growth numbers don't tell any story apart maybe from «many people read the "Open" part of the OpenDNS name and turn their brains off» [2].
- DNS nerds run their own DNS and keep away from openDNS for breaking DNS and invading privacy.
- not causing issues for most people doesn't disprove that it did cause issue for many people.
I do remember the browser landscape before openDNS and I'm quite happy to debunk your boasting attempt at being significant. The "search from the address bar" functionality has been around long before google chrome came to existence, actually it was in opera before openDNS existed and even better it allows to choose the search engine and use several with the use of a keyword. This was then added to firefox back in firefox 3. Again don't take my word for it and look a this 2008 post[3].
[1]: http://www.bortzmeyer.org/opendns-non-merci.html
[2]: http://beta.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1297613&cid=2864072...
[3]: http://googlesystem.blogspot.fr/2008/06/searching-from-addre...