The Lookup That Exposes Everything: How DNS Quietly Hands Your Browsing History to Strangers
Most Americans believe that HTTPS and VPNs have their privacy covered — but there is a foundational layer of internet traffic that bypasses all of those protections entirely. DNS queries, the silent translators that convert website names into addresses, travel across the internet in plain text by default, handing a detailed record of your online life to your ISP and potentially many others. Understanding how this works — and what you can do about it — is one of the most consequential steps any u