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Re:Quad9 – A public and free DNS service for a better securi... by eudhxhdhsb32 on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @09:36AM (#43471120)
Are you just referring to ads not being blocked?

A regular dns like quad9 + ublock origin on Firefox has been a consistently great experience for me.

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Re:Quad9 – A public and free DNS service for a better securi... by bayindirh on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @09:47AM (#43471249)
Probably the responsiveness of things. Firefox is very sensitive to DNS roundtrip time during daily use. A faster response time provides much better experience with it.

I guess that ~25% of "Firefox is slow" myth is coming from slow DNS response, if not higher.

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Re:Quad9 – A public and free DNS service for a better securi... by eudhxhdhsb32 on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @10:00AM (#43471421)
That makes sense. Do you know the reason for Firefox being more sensitive? Is their DNS prefetching not as effective?
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Re:Quad9 – A public and free DNS service for a better securi... by bayindirh on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @10:07AM (#43471522)
I honestly have no idea. I observe it all the time, and note repeatedly everywhere when the discussion comes up, but never had the time to dig into the code and see how that all works.
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