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by nmjohn 1568 days ago
Given you only mention censorship/chilling effect and not privacy - why isn't 8.8.8.8 sufficient? Have there been instances of domains it censored and stopped resolving that I'm not aware of?

I guess I'm confused on the benefit (theoretical or practical) one would get by using that variety of resolvers. Is it just to prevent theoretical censorship at the DNS level?

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Same with 1.1.1.1 (the case where archive.is used to not work was archive.is's nameserver purposefully being configured to return bad results to 1.1.1.1)
My question exactly. In another comment here I asked for some examples for the claim that some .ru domains were being black holed.