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Originally Posted by lucevans
Before signing-up, it's worth reading their privacy policy and bearing in mind that they are a US-based company who will store your look-up requests on servers outside the UK, and are not bound by (and will not abide by) UK data protection laws. Interestingly, under the "mergers and acquisitions" section of their PP, they openly state that all personally identifiable data held on you would be transfered to any acquiring business, who may well not hold the same views on your privacy as the current openDNS ethos (Just imagine if a company like doubleclick bought opendns) . Since the speed improvements are marginal for many VM users, and you already have business with VM, who are accountable under UK data protection law, I would say the benefits don't really outweight the potential risks here.
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if a company bought opendns that was a suspect business, i'd question why the hell opendns sold the business to them.
the only downside to opendns is when resolving domains that use geoip data to give you a result back. the opendns IPs afaik return back an american location and so anyone using opendns would be routed to the american servers instead of a more local one (if the site uses the geoip data)