> Distros/users are encouraged to change these defaults and many do. Haven't we learned enough over the years from projects like PHP and MySQL that having defa

> Distros/users are encouraged to change these defaults and many do. Haven't we learned enough over the years from projects like PHP and MySQL that having defaults "for developers" and expecting them to be changed for production use is a terrible idea? The defaults should be sane, secure, and privacy-forward for the majority of users. If such defaults can't be agreed upon, there should be no defaults and the users should be forced to set it appropriately for their needs. --- Personally I gave in to the Google monster years ago so it doesn't bother me, but I can certainly see why a lot of people would find these defaults concerning. Beyond that, I definitely agree with those who are pointing out that the fallback behavior altogether is undesirable. If my chosen DNS servers fail to respond I don't want my system to go out and try some other random servers, I want it to indicate a failure and let me fix it.