Have strong opinions, but I welcome any civil fact-based discussion.
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https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdoor gives a good overview with links to further reads.
Quad9 if you just want to set it and forget about it.
NextDNS is you don’t mind doing some tinkering.
They used to cover tech more generally, but they did switch to mostly only covering startups these days. But I’m not sure what here you don’t want to trust, it’s on the reader to evaluate the product.