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Stop your ISP seeing what you do online

What you need: AdGuard DNS Time required: 30 minutes

Every time you visit a website, your PC passes a request for the site’s contents to your internet service provider (ISP). The ISP looks up the server hosting the site using a Domain Name System (DNS) directory, retrieves the site’s content and sends it back to your browser. As a result, it can – if it chooses – keep track of what you’re doing online.

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