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when in private who can see what I'm looking at can the router record my searches or websites I am on?

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Fast Eddie
Fast Eddie

When in private, who can see what I'm looking at? Can the router still record my searches and websites I visit?

When in private, who can see what I'm looking at? Can the router still record my searches and websites I visit?

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jbr
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Yes, it can / it will: Common Myths about Private Browsing

There are ways to how to encrypt even these bit from the outside:

me.at.here-55
me.at.here-55

Hey Fast Eddie, if your DNS quires are via UDP/TCP port 53, then yes your router, ISP, ... etc, can see your computer made a request for the IP address for a specific site. To circumvent this snooping we use, DNS over HTTPS (DoH) which encrypts the requests, and embeds them into the https tcp/443 encrypted data stream. If you use an unencrypted site HTTP:// vs. an encrypted site HTTPS:// then the data is easily snooped, passwords etc, which is why we use HTTPS Only. Then we use a VPN to so the encrypted data, hand-shakes etc, are grouped with a number of other users data are presented to the internet via the endpoint IP.

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