I, switched from Google FI because of lack of customer support and services that were getting less and less, but more costly and costly. I went to T-Mobile. Good service, much the same as Google fi is a first party mvno. Anyway I use a private dns. NextDns. T-Mobile had no clue what a dns was and the super had to Google it. They SEVERELY THROTTLE if you use next dns.
I HATE THAT. What do you use as privacy conscious individuals?
edit: not that! What
Mint Mobile, though that's more as a wallet conscious individual. I VPN back home for DNS while I'm out.
Controld. Just set the free one in your systems private DNS section.
I use Tailscale on TMobile that connects to my home network as an exitnode, which allows me to use the DNS configured in my home router.
That sounds ideal, but I don't currently have the resources to set up a home network. :-\
No reason it has to literally live 'at home' - you could just as easily use a VPS via LowEndBox for five or six bucks a month, though of course trust in providers varies widely.
Couldn't you just use a VPN? Hiding your IP address also increases your privacy. Mullvad VPN is one of the best, most private and trustworthy VPNs, and it's just 5 bucks a month. You don't even need an email address to sign up, and you can pay anonymously with crypto.
Sounds like that's the way I'll have to go. Unfortunate, I hate increased layers of complexity, but I think that's the move.
Visible has worked well for me recently - it's wholly owned by VZW as I recall, and exclusively uses their network. In most areas, VZW is objectively the best coverage of any carrier.
$30/mo and I have yet to see throttling, even with heavy use. It "just works".
Yes, I'm effectively handing that data to VZW, but I have no illusions that any MVNO I chose would behave any differently. One way or another, they're all reselling the same 3 carriers, who by definition must have some base level of access to your data.
VPNs go a long way towards mitigating that, but using a carrier is likely to leak some level of data. While I have a great deal of respect for RMS, my own life doesn't really fit within his internet usage model and I'm forced to make choices. (Sacrifices, really, but informed ones.)