{"id":1075,"date":"2020-06-21T05:26:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T03:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2025-03-04T05:09:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T04:09:38","slug":"how-to-protect-yourself-from-your-isp-snooping-on-the-websites-you-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/how-to-protect-yourself-from-your-isp-snooping-on-the-websites-you-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"How to protect yourself from your ISP snooping on the websites you visit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TLDR; To prevent your ISP snooping<\/a> on the websites you visit, you must not only change your browser settings, you most likely also need to change your DNS settings.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) connects you to the internet, every request sent can be logged and tells your ISP which websites you visited, down to the hostnames and subdomains. This information can be valuable data of which many companies make huge profits. That is why if you value your privacy on the web, using your ISP\u2019s DNS server can be a massive problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DoH or DoT is designed to stop that snooping possibility. That is why major browser vendors have now begun supporting DNS-over-HTTPS (or DoH), a protocol that encrypts DNS traffic to increase user privacy and security online. However, even if you enable DoH in your browser, it\u2019s up to the DNS provider to implement it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Change your DNS provider<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Most home network connections are configured by default to use the ISP\u2019s DNS servers, which probably don\u2019t support DoH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are major DNS providers, like Cloudflare, OpenDNS, and Google Public DNS that already support it. You may also check many other free and public DNS servers here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Changing the DNS is different on each system, please check screenshots for your system on this article: https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/664608\/why-you-shouldnt-be-using-your-isps-default-dns-server\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Enable DoH (secure DNS) in your browser<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Firefox<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Mozilla was the organization that pioneered DoH\u2019s creation together with Cloudflare. Support for DoH is available in stable versions of Firefox already. You can enable it via the browser\u2019s Settings section, in the Networking section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chrome and Chromium-based browsers like Brave, Edge and Vivaldi<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Chrome is the second browser to have added DoH support. You can enable DoH in Chrome\/Chromium browsers by going to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

chrome:\/\/flags\/#dns-over-https<\/strong>
brave:\/\/flags\/#dns-over-https<\/strong>
edge:\/\/flags\/#dns-over-https<\/strong>
vivaldi:\/\/flags\/#dns-over-https<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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OPERA<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

To enable DoH in Opera, visit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

opera:\/\/flags\/opera-doh<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: You must disable VPN features for DoH to work if you are using the Opera\u2019s built-in VPN system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Phone or tablet<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

For example if you choose Cloudflare, you need to change your DNS setting to use 1.1.1.1 \u2013 And on an iPhone or Android you can download the app named \u201c1.1.1.1\u201d (iOS doesn\u2019t allow a system wide change of DNS \u2014 only per wifi connection).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TLDR; To prevent your ISP snooping on the websites you visit, you must not only change your browser settings, you most likely also need to change your DNS settings. Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) connects you to the internet, every request sent can be logged and tells your ISP which websites you visited, down to the hostnames […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}