Sacrificing privacy for speed is a bad tradeoff in this instance as DNS request speed is over emphasized in almost all cases (case in point classifying 15ms vs 25ms as a "problem").

If a site is not already cached at the OS level than a typical DNS lookup from the central / east coast US to EU takes ~120-130ms. 8x slower may at first sound really bad until you pause to consider that the unit in question is milliseconds.

Your web browser and the webpage itself are generally doing far more damage to your page load times than the DNS lookup.

Sacrificing privacy? Sorry, but my ISP knows what DNS queries I make regardless of which service I use.

There is an important difference to recognize between your ISP inspecting network packets 24x7 to target and collect your DNS queries vs you handing the infomation directly to them.

Buisness users will not see the nag because computers joined to a domain are excluded.

Not sure about this. Windows Enterprise was never sent the nagware bits. I use Win8.0 Enterprise at home (MSDN) and it's never asked me once. I tried to manually upgrade to 10 and it refused. One PC has never been domain joined.

So it might be the fact that it's the Enterprise version of the OS, not the domain join.

I have Windows 7 Ultimate and it nags.

Indeed, Enterprise and Ultimate are different versions.

The controls and chat were upgraded to HTML5 last year but the video will not be converted from Flash to HTML5 until Q2 this year.

This was one of the major announcements made during CEO's keynote at TwitchCon. http://blog.twitch.tv/2015/09/twitchcon-2015-keynote-product...

OS X and iOS streams use HLS (append /hls to url) and you can get the html5 video in various ways (append &html5 or [1]).

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Kappa/comments/3l01q4/complete_twit...

https://www.browserleaks.com/ is another useful resource to help understand browser fingerprinting and how to combat it.

There is in fact already an extension which will randomly change the browser user agent.

https://github.com/dillbyrne/random-agent-spoofer

Also, uMatrix can randomly switch user agent strings (among many other things).

People who know they are being watched change their thoughts and behavior either consciously or subconsciously.

If the government had cameras inside your house set to record 24x7 would you act any differently than you do today? Are you breaking any laws inside your home, if not, what are you trying to protect yourself from by refusing access?

Have you ever avoided visiting a website, searching for information on certain subjects, or held back writing something online that you felt strongly about because you were afraid of possible repercussions in the future?

If yes, then that is an example of the government eroding our rights which are protected by the first and fourth amendments. The right to privacy online is just as important as the privacy you enjoy (take for granted?) within your own home.