{"id":234813,"date":"2026-04-23T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/this-simple-dns-switch-is-always-my-first-privacy-recommendation\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:45:09","slug":"this-simple-dns-switch-is-always-my-first-privacy-recommendation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/this-simple-dns-switch-is-always-my-first-privacy-recommendation\/","title":{"rendered":"This simple DNS switch is always my first privacy recommendation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/this-simple-dns-switch-is-always-my-first-privacy-recommendation\/\">This simple DNS switch is always my first privacy recommendation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/this-simple-dns-switch-is-always-my-first-privacy-recommendation\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/this-simple-dns-switch-is-always-my-first-privacy-recommendation\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-23 14:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been in conversations where people assume privacy starts with apps, browsers, or VPNs, and I wonder why DNS is not thrown into these conversations.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a system that constantly runs in the background to translate web addresses into IP addresses, and changing it is my first suggestion when it comes to privacy. By changing it, especially to a privacy-focused option like Quad9, you change a major default behavior, altering what the network can expose even before other components load.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tI stopped using browser VPNs after this\u2014and you should too<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">You should avoid browser VPNs for security and performance reasons. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"dns-is-the-invisible-layer-shaping-everything-you-do-online\">\n                        DNS is the invisible layer shaping everything you do online<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"why-every-website-you-open-starts-with-a-request-you-don-39-t-see\">\n            Why every website you open starts with a request you don&#8217;t see<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>                                                                                                                    &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/this-simple-dns-switch-is-always-my-first-privacy-recommendation\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This simple DNS switch is always my first privacy recommendation https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/this-simple-dns-switch-is-always-my-first-privacy-recommendation\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-23 14:30:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/04\/editing-dns-settings-1.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234815,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234813\/revisions\/234815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}