{"id":18026,"date":"2026-07-15T14:35:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=18026"},"modified":"2026-07-15T14:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:36:06","slug":"your-isp-is-watching-and-your-router-is-its-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/your-isp-is-watching-and-your-router-is-its-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Your ISP Is Watching, and Your Router Is Its Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don&#8217;t use the router from your ISP, nor their DNS servers, and use a VPN (I prefer commercial offerings with a WiFi access point separate to the router). I also recommend <a href=\"https:\/\/pi-hole.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pi-Hole<\/a> DNS\/<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.pi-hole.net\/guides\/dns\/unbound\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Unbound<\/a> servers where you can add a lot of blocklists for malware, telemetry, ads&#8230; so some connected devices on your network you aren&#8217;t running through a VPN are protected. You could run your entire network through a VPN, but that can cause problems with some services that block known VPN IPs&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Your ISP Is Watching, and Your Router Is Its Eyes\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/24_94bGpWQM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t use the router from your ISP, nor their DNS servers, and use a VPN (I prefer commercial offerings with a WiFi access point separate to the router). I also recommend Pi-Hole DNS\/Unbound servers where you can add a lot of blocklists for malware, telemetry, ads&#8230; so some connected devices on your network you aren&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18028,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18026\/revisions\/18028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}