I am not a US citizen, your practice isnt mine. That also goes for many here and many more of the people who use the internet. I cant trust a US company with my DNS requests because lacking US citizenship or residency I lack any rights or protection whatsoever when it comes to my data. For my local ISP on the other hand, there are clear rules and regulations in place on how they are allowed to use and share my data.

I would say i have more trust in my ISP but trust is not the issue here, its jurisdiction. Routing my DNS requests through another jurisdiction where i lack any rights or protection is just a horrible "screw you" to anyone not living in the US.

It might be the tinfoil, but looking at this move by Mozilla after disabling addons silently via an out of date cert a few month ago (screwing over every last Tor user in the process) I am hard pressed not to assume malice on their part.