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If you want privacy, use Tor. Like Richard Stallman https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

Anything else like a "VPN" (which is really just a proxy under a cooler name) is somewhere between a half measure, a snake oil hobby or self-sabotage (if you picked the wrong VPN).

You don't trust a large multi national that works on encryption and tries to deny frivolous law enforcement requests when it outright says it samples a small amount of "anonymized" data and doesn't correlate it with anything else it has on you or sell it

>> Is any of the information collected stored with my Google account?

> No.

>> Does Google share the information it collects from the Google Public DNS service with anyone outside Google?

> No, except in the limited circumstances described in Google's privacy policy, such as legal processes and enforceable governmental requests. (See also Google's Transparency Report on user data requests.)

>> Does Google correlate or combine information from temporary or permanent logs with any personal information that I have provided Google for other services?

> No.

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/faq

yet trust some small, anonymous group of people that set up a proxy that's netting them like $5/month of revenue per user in a highly competitive market?

> [policies] are all "we pinky swear"

Are they not legally binding? But yea, like I said, obviously they're just brazenly lying because of course they are. "goog bad" has been established. I'm not sure how or where... but everyone knows that.

Better be safe and give your data to an organization that lists the US Secret Service as a "Partner".



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