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Protect myself from my ISP? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by certified_expert@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Noob here. This is probably the most repeated question, but I don't know the technical terms to make the appropiate digging online, and thought of asking humans before slopping my way around.

I don't trust my ISP or the government above it.

The ISP remotely manages the local network! So I installed a router of my own and my devices only to that one.

I would like to encrypt (?) anything that goes out of my own router, so my ISP doesn't evesdrop what I'm doing even if they want to (I know I know... if they really wanted, they could just send friends to my house).

Using Linux, Android GOS, and Pihole. They live under a "picked-up-from-a-shelf" router; and that router under theirs.

(I cannot get a different ISP)

Thanks

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[–] x@niwego.com 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@certified_expert

I don't trust my ISP or the government above it.

I think everyone here today doesn't trust their ISP and government.

Use a #VPN or #TOR,Your ISP will only know the destination point, all traffic will be encrypted through a #tunnel

You said you installed a router. How did you configure the modem? In Full Bridge?

Also start changing your #DNS, don't use your ISP's default ones

[–] certified_expert@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My pihole serves dns. If not found, it goes directly to root tables (I forgot how they are called).

The router, I just connected its WAN port to the ISP's switch/router/AP. Within the LAN under my router I have DHCP sending everybody to do lookups to the pihole. I don't know what full bridge is.

The ISP's modem/router/switch/AP, I cannot configure. It is a fucking "smart" brick remotely controlled.

[–] x@niwego.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

@certified_expert
so the modem that you have from your ISP it is not possible to configure it as, ONT,Bridge or Full Bridge . 🤔

Since you are just starting out, I recommend you start by subscribing to a VPN, (don't use the free ones)avoid tor for now, I use Mullvad which only allows 5 devices at the same time, but there are others, choose those that don't keep logs.

[–] TiredTiger@lemmy.ml 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

If you are able to set up OpenWRT on your router and run Mullvad through that, you can cover your whole network as one "device."

I recommend everyone get their own modem/router if they are able to. ISP's don't provide them for free and you have no idea what monitoring they do with their hardware.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 21 hours ago

They literally to vide them for free. And why so people use their service. Do you know how many people just use their modem and they up sell people WiFi repeaters and the like. The hardware is a fold mine for ISPs.