You may have noticed a setting on Android called Private DNS. It's on by default, and you're best off leaving it that way.

Public WiFi networks are a normal part of life, but that doesn't mean we need to accept privacy violations, too. That's why Android's private DNS mode is important. In case you don't know, DNS (or ...

Google is rolling out DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) support to Chrome for Android, starting with devices where the web browser has been updated to version 85. DoH enables DNS resolution over encrypted HTTPS ...

Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 service is one of the most popular encrypted DNS providers, and for good reason. Launched with a focus on privacy, it promises never to sell your data or use it to target ads—a ...

The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the most important, yet lesser-known aspects of browsing the internet. In a nutshell, it’s responsible for converting a domain name (like google.com) to an IP ...

Ryne was ostensibly a senior editor at Android Police, working at the site from 2017-2022. But really, he is just some verbose dude who digs on tech, loves Android, and hates anticompetitive practices ...

DNS over HTTPS (DoH) makes it so that malicious third-parties cannot see what you’re visiting or redirect you to phishng sites. After introducing to desktop browsers, Google is bringing Secure DNS to ...

Google has added support for the DNS-over-HTTP/3 (DoH3) protocol on Android 11 and later to increase the privacy of DNS queries while providing better performance. HTTP/3 is the third major version of ...