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To answer your technical question with perfect accuracy:
I don't know.
To answer your privacy question:
Yes. You'll get roughly the same privacy benefit.
Standard disclaimer: to gain full privacy from Google also requires regular use of a VPN, strict 3rd party cookie blocking, regular clearing of any mystery cookies that show up, and some luck.
Thanks, and is there one DNS provider that is better than the others in terms of privacy and degoogling?
Google's DNS is 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Public_DNS)
Most of the alternate Android builds will have already replaced it with a better option.
In theory it's possible that any DNS provider is selling your browsing behavior, but that sold traffic would still need to be correlated back to your purchase, political or religious behaviors to be useful. And that correlation probably relies on either tracking cookies and or whatever Google app can do to track you.
So I don't stress about DNS provider as long as I think my tracking cookies are under control and my VPN configured.
That said, if you want to confirm the Privacy of your configured DNS provider, this guide may help:
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/dns/
Thanks for the info ❤️