Every time you type a URL or click a link, your device asks a DNS server one question: what’s the IP address for this domain? That question happens before any data transfers, before any connection is made, before any encryption kicks in. Your ISP’s DNS server receives every single one of those requests. Every website you visit. Every app that phones home. Every search you run. All logged, timestamped, and tied to your account. ...
The privacy industry wants you to think this is complicated. It isn’t. Most of the surveillance you’re exposed to daily can be neutralized for less than you spend on a streaming service. Here’s the stack. Exact tools, exact costs, no filler. DNS: NextDNS — $2/month Every website you visit starts with a DNS query — your device asking a resolver “what’s the IP for google.com?” By default that resolver is your ISP, and your ISP sells that data. NextDNS routes those queries over encrypted DNS-over-HTTPS or DNS-over-TLS, blocks trackers and ad networks at the DNS level before they ever load, and logs nothing you don’t explicitly tell it to. Install it on your router and every device on your network is covered. One config, everywhere. ...