Open Letter To David Ulevitch, Founder & CEO OpenDNS
David - I love your product and have been a long time supporter. I love that OpenDNS let’s home users and have a fast, reliable, DNS option to their ISP and adds fantastic free features like blocking inappropriate content for free. I use OpenDNS at home, on my Mac, even my Android phones using SetDNS. As an OpenDNS user, it seems that OpenDNS has veered from your consumer centric beginnings to being more interested in supporting the interests of advertisers.
I would like to see OpenDNS offer features that enhance user privacy and block ads like your new competitor FoolDNS offers. While I don’t currently subscribe to OpenDNS paid services, I would absolutely subscribe to these kinds of features.
What is particularly interesting is unlike browser based ad blocking software, a DNS based solution would block “in app” ads and provide protection for phones, set top boxes, and other newer classes of devices. I think a premium service that blocked phishing, known malware sites, protected privacy, and blocked ads, perhaps bundled with an anti-virus package, would be the ultimate “all in one” security solution the community could get behind.
You’ve experienced tremendous success by giving the community what we NEEDED… fast, reliable, and secure DNS. Please consider now offering us what we WANT, which is more control over what we download. I’ll pay for it, and I’m sure others would too.
