Monthly Archives: October 2020

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  Using CleanBrowsing on the pcWRT router

  Posted on October 30, 2020 by pcwrt in Parental Control, Router.

  You can use either the CleanBrowsing free plan or a paid plan on the pcWRT router. If you are using the free plan, simply choose one of the three free content filters offered by CleanBrowsing from the DNS service dropdown list (on the Access Control page). You can create multiple Access Control profiles on the […]

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  How to enable DNS over HTTPS on the pcWRT router

  Posted on October 27, 2020 by pcwrt in How To, Router.

  DNS over HTTPS (DoH) is an important security addition to the DNS. It encrypts your DNS queries, preventing third parties (e.g., your ISP) from seeing and collecting data about what web sites you are visiting. The encryption also protects your DNS queries from being hijacked by hackers. As of v2.2.1, we’ve added support for DNS […]

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  Does your parental control pass the DOH test?

  Posted on October 7, 2020 by pcwrt in Parental Control, Technology.

  Why does DOH (DNS over HTTPS) interfere with parental control? Unlike traditional DNS queries, which are sent to servers via a plain text connection, DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) requests are sent over an encrypted HTTPS connection. It was introduced mainly because of the privacy benefits that come with the data encryption. However, since many parental control systems […]

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