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OpenDNS will block known adware, spyware, and malware sites at the expense of serving up custom pages when addresses don't resolve. Some ISPs do this at no add

OpenDNS will block known adware, spyware, and malware sites at the expense of serving up custom pages when addresses don't resolve. Some ISPs do this at no additional benefit to the customer. Caching and speed are the other most likely reasons.

sp332 12y ago
Right now, if you make a free account on the OpenDNS website, you can configure it to give you normal NXDOMAIN records instead of ads. And they just announced that they're going to do away with all ads, since they never really liked having them and they're getting enough money from paying customers now. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7819150 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7819150
- bigbugbag 12y ago
  And once you have an account they can link it with your usage of their DNS and get a better price when they sell the data. As stated by its cofounder in the "no more ads" post, OpenDNS is a "revenue oriented company" so it seems the logic behind this option existing for registered user sis that they get more money from selling registered user data than from showing ads.
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bigbugbag 12y ago
« They also keep permanent logs of all queries, which could be subpoenaed by a government entity. Their joke of a privacy policy allows them to sell your logs to "Affiliated Businesses", which pretty much means anybody. Not that it really matters - they could amend their privacy policy tomorrow morning and be selling your info by the afternoon.» -- seizurebattlerobot http://beta.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1297613&cid=28640723 http://beta.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1297613&cid=2864072...