I'm the founder of OpenDNS. I've decided to reply even though these comments are heinously wrong, and probably just me feeding the trolls...
We have never sold user data,
ever. We also have no CDN bills, we don't even use a CDN. We've built a global BGP-speaking network with hundreds of peers around the world. I know, because I built it. We peer at LoNAP, LINX, PAIX, SeattleIX and on a few of the Equinix peering fabrics around the US.
The idea that we would build our business based on monitoring user data is preposterous. I wouldn't stand for it, nor would our employees. I'm confident that all our engineers are just as vocal or more vocal about doing the right thing than you are. We make it very clear how we make money, and it's all over our website. Go to
http://guide.opendns.com and do a search. The sponsored results are ads where we get paid, the organic results are regular search results. That's how we make money. We might offer an enterprise for-pay service down the road as some of our customers begin to demand tighter integration with their network but for now, we're happy with our business. And I'm happy to report that we're profitable and stable, even in this economy.
And as to the OpenDNS proxy. It's true, we do redirect certain Google requests through a proxy so that we can make our OpenDNS shortcuts and some other features work more reliably. Two important things here: First, we peer with Google at every datacenter, so we aren't adding to your latency or anything else. Second, we don't log and store any data and we certainly don't care about it. We prefer to be able to confidently say we aren't keeping data on it. Of course, you are welcome to disable it by going into your settings and disabling the OpenDNS proxy. That's it. Do that and we don't ever see the request. Pretty easy. End of story.
David Ulevitch
Founder, OpenDNS
