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VPN and DNS-leak protection

Using a trustworthy VPN with DNS-leak protection to prevent ISPs from seeing search queries and domain names.

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What combination of browser settings and tools (VPN, Tor, DuckDuckGo) most effectively prevents ISPs from seeing search activity?

The single most practical way to the content of search queries is to stop sending those queries in the clear by encrypting and routing them through intermediaries — most users get that by combining a ...