This hub collects every tactical guide that protects your network traffic from ISP logging, DNS profiling, captive portals, travel networks, hotel routers, and device-level leaks. If you want your traffic to look encrypted and boring, start here.
This hub is the index. Find the guide you need. Move through the sections. Each guide locks down a different layer of your network exposure. If you haven’t erased your identifiers yet, start with the Digital Footprint Hub. If you haven’t hardened your devices, see the Digital Lockdown Hub.
Many of these guides are still in production and will be linked as they publish.
LAST UPDATED: Nov 2025
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1. The Network Privacy Fundamentals Guide
A tactical walkthrough of encrypted DNS, safe VPN stacking, router basics, segmentation, captive portal discipline, and how to build a clean network environment.
2. How to Set Up a Clean Network Environment Anywhere
Your repeatable process: new browser container, fresh DNS, encrypted channel, no tokens, no persistence.
3. NextDNS vs Pi-hole vs AdGuard: What Actually Protects You?
The real differences between local filtering, cloud filtering, blocklists, and threat intelligence.
Related Master Guides
These master guides give you the system level defenses behind the tactical steps. Each of these expands the footprint work into system level defenses.
- The Complete Guide to Locking Down Your Digital Life
- Threat Modeling and OPSEC: A Practical Guide for Real Humans
- Crisis Mode Protocols
- The Resistence Mindset: How to Reclaim Control
- Operational Privacy: From Setup to System
DNS Privacy
Cut ISPs, hotels, captive portals, and mobile carriers out of your resolution path.
How to Set Up NextDNS and Kill ISP Tracking for Good
Encrypted DNS setup, device profiles, blocklists, and router level deployment that cuts your ISP out of your traffic.
NextDNS Hostname Guide: What Each Label Actually Means
Decode every resolver hostname and how to pick the safest one.
OISD vs Hagezi: Which DNS Blocklist Should You Use in 2026?
How to decide and pick the right one for you. A breakdown of the two dominant blocklists and how to pick the one that fits your privacy model.
How to Force Encrypted DNS on Every Device
Step by step enforcement of DoH and DoT across Windows, Android, iOS, and routers.
How to Stop DNS Leaks on Windows, Android, and Routers
A quick guide to patching the hidden leaks most devices produce even when you think DNS is secured.
VPN Discipline
How to tunnel traffic cleanly and avoid leaks, speed traps, and token bleed.
How to Use VPN + Encrypted DNS the Right Way
The correct order, routing path, leak checks, and tunnel logic for running VPN and encrypted DNS together safely.
Double Layer VPN: When It Helps and When It Hurts
A blunt breakdown of when double tunneling increases protection and when it destroys speed and stability.
Kill Switch Hardening on All Major Platforms
How to enforce strict no traffic outside the tunnel behavior on every device you rely on.
Router & Home Network Hardening
Segment devices, isolate threats, and stop metadata leaks at home.
Build a Clean Home Network: Segmentation, Firewalls, Isolation
How to segment devices, isolate IoT, set firewall rules, and stop metadata leaks at home.
How to Replace Your ISP Router With Something Safe
What hardware to buy, how to migrate, and which defaults you need to shut off immediately.
Router Privacy Checklist for 2026
A punch list for router hardening: admin isolation, DNS enforcement, wireless lockdown, and firmware hygiene.
How to Block Tracking at the Router Level
How to use DNS policies, blocklists, and firewall rules to filter trackers before they ever reach your devices.
Unbound + NextDNS Hybrid Setup
A clean recursive resolver + encrypted DNS combo for maximum privacy without speed loss.
Travel Network Safety
Move through hostile networks without bleeding identity.
Travel Router Lockdown: Move Without Bleeding Metadata
How to carry a safe network with you and force clean DNS and VPN behavior on hostile networks.
How to Use a Travel Router in Hotels and Airports Safely
A simple method to stay anonymous on public networks without exposing identifiers or tokens.
Captive Portals: How to Authenticate Without Exposing Your Identity
A safe workflow for captive portals that keeps your real identity and accounts off hostile routers.
Public WiFi Survival: DNS, VPN, Containers, and No Tokens
A quick travel protocol for clean browser containers, encrypted DNS, VPN discipline, and token isolation.
Mobile Network Privacy
Kill carrier level metadata and mobile DNS leaks.
How to Force Secure DNS on Mobile
The steps to kill carrier DNS and enforce encrypted DNS on Android and iOS.
How to Stop Carrier Level Profiling
A breakdown of what your carrier collects and how to reduce the metadata footprint they build around your device.
Mobile Hotspot Privacy: What You’re Exposing
What tethering exposes about your device, and how to protect your identifiers when sharing your connection.
Fast Checks
Quick diagnostics to confirm leaks are closed.
How to Check for DNS Leaks
A fast diagnostic to confirm whether your encrypted DNS configuration is actually working.
How to Check for VPN Leaks
The traffic, IP, and DNS checks to ensure your tunnel isn’t handing your identity back to the network.
How to Check Your Router for Open Ports
A simple method for testing your home router for unwanted exposure points.
Network Privacy Audit: 15-Minute Checklist
A quick pass that identifies DNS leaks, VPN failures, open ports, weak segmentation, and misconfigured routing.
Compartmentalization
Keep work, personal, and operational identities from contaminating each other through networks.
Browser Containers + Network Profiles
How to match network paths with containers so identities never cross contaminate.
Separate DNS Profiles for Separate Personas
A clean method for assigning unique DNS profiles to each persona, device, or browser container.
How Network Metadata De-Anonymizes You
Why traffic patterns matter and how metadata links your identities even when content is encrypted.
Verification Steps
Run these after any major network changes:
- Check DNS leak status on all devices
- Confirm VPN kill switch works
- Reaudit router & LAN segmentation
- Confirm captive portal isolation
- Recheck blocklists after updates
- Validate DoH/DoT is enforced systemwide
Related Support Hubs
- Digital Footprint Hub – Erase identifiers before hardening.
- Digital Lockdown Hub – Harden devices, browsers, and networks against surveillance.
- Network Privacy Hub – Kill DNS leaks, VPN failures, and ISP logging.
- Phone Privacy Hub – Mobile telemetry, OS residue cleanup, and location hardening.
- Faraday Gear Hub – RF quieting and physical metadata control.