[cookiecaper]

To be fair, Google DNS is more trustworthy than ISP DNS, and if you're using Chrome, you're not exposing anything that Google isn't reading anyway. DNS requests are much less informative than full browsing history.

It is probably better to use OpenDNS, but they used to do the same spammy redirect on NXDOMAINs that ISPs do (I think I heard they stopped that). To be honest, the real reason I don't use them much anymore is that their IPs are harder to remember. It's easier to do 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4.

[fenwick67]

The internet isn't just the web. Setting your DNS to Google's will also tell them what other applications you use and what you connect them to.