Are there any objections to using OpenDNS?

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Are there any objections to using OpenDNS?

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I love Carey Holzman and even though he posts some stuff that I'm not really interested in he's been a big help in helping me build a PC and he's also given miscellaneous tips and info to any viewers. Recently he's posted a video about something called OpenDNS (it's a reupload from his Quick Tip series of videos apparently), and because I trust him, aswell as having looked slightly around the internet for info about if it's bad in any way, I've started using it. I wondered if anyone here has any experience with it. Should I continue, should I stop?
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I've been using it as well, actually. Infact, it's good to write down OpenDNS's IPs and Google's. Internet Provider's DNSes can go down, and when they do - you're shit out of luck for browsing the internet. This happened to me before and I have since then switched to OpenDNS.

I haven't experienced anything bad nor any slow downs with OpenDNS. I have a friend who uses Google's DNS and he hasn't had any problems. So go ahead.
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You may not get the closest CDN. Looks like Akamai solved that problem. If Google doesn't do something similar expect more buffering than usual from YT.
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DNS is just a phone book with IPs, DNS =/= YouTube buffering. I also believe Google knows -well- about CDN.
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I'll take it it's good then, and I'll keep using it.
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I've been using it for years literally
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