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Tech Explained, Security, Internet & Entertainment Editor @MUO_official. Product Reviewer. Tweets on tech, football, Spurs, & F1.
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A new browser feature hides which website you're visiting from your ISP, and it has nothing to do with a VPN

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By Gavin Phillips Verified
| MUO Verified
HTTPS arrived and drastically altered the internet. Our data was more private than ever, and all it took was the major browsers forcing compliance, and Google Under the hood, Encrypted Client Hello is actually closing a gap present throughout the entire HTTPS era: even on a fully encrypted connection, your internet provider could always see which website you were visiting, just not what you did there.
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DNS has a new encrypted version that isn't DoH or DoT, and almost nobody's adopted it yet

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By Gavin Phillips Verified
| MUO Verified
I've spent the past few months testing all types of DNS. I've tested Quad9 against Cloudflare, Cloudflare WARP against my default ISP DNS, encrypted DNS against regular DNS from a coffee shop, and much more. Throughout all of that time, one acronym kept popping up that I'd never encountered: DoQ. DNS over QUIC is a new Domain Name System protocol that will be a game changer for online security and privacy — but almost no one has started using it so far.
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Your 2.4GHz Wi-Fi has 11 channels, but you should only use 3 of them

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By Gavin Phillips Verified
| MUO Verified
Open your router's 2.4GHz settings, and you'll find a channel dropdown with 11 options, sitting there like 11 real choices that will make a difference to your signal. Well, they're not lying. Each channel will give you different outcomes when it comes to interference, but the picker makes it appear that each channel delivers the same experience. The truth is that when it comes to 2.4GHz Wi-Fi, only three channels are worth using, and even then, it's a tricky business depending where you live.
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