It doesn't fix privacy but it does work around censorship. Has a court or the government ordered your ISP to usurp its enemies' DNS records? If so, you need to talk to a different resolver, not constrained by your government or courts.

> but it does work around censorship

* for the countries/ISPs that don't also hijack all DNS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_hijacking#Manipulation_by_...