I always thought it'd be great if the EFF ran a public DNS server. At least you could trust them not to use your requests to build a profile of your online activity or redirect you to ads.
If you'd like to have a private DNS server, it's fairly easy to set up your own recursor. (Just please don't expose it to the whole internet.)
You could use the DNS server of the german non-profit "Digitalcourage": https://digitalcourage.de/support/zensurfreier-dns-server
They are taking a stance against censorship on the internet (and lots of other topics), so make sure to send them some money if you use the DNS. ;-)
In theory EDNS Client Subnet (ECS) is supposed to work around this problem, but a) according to https://www.cdnplanet.com/blog/which-cdns-support-edns-clien... Akamai only supports this with Google and OpenDNS and b) alternative DNS providers might not support ECS anyway, whether explicitly for privacy reasons or otherwise…
Which means I'd basically have to set up a custom DNS resolver in order to special-case queries for Akamai domains…