Unencrypted DNS can expose your browsing activity, but Android's Private DNS helps keep it private. Here's how to enable it.

Ben Khalesi writes about where artificial intelligence, consumer tech, and everyday technology intersect for Android Police. With a background in AI and Data Science, he’s great at turning geek speak ...

Apple has gotten into hot water because of its stance on privacy and encryption and while Google is, on paper, on the same boat, Android hasn't exactly been widely regarded as a very privacy-focused ...

Android 9.0 Pie in 2018 introduced DNS-over-TLS (DoT) and the mobile OS now supports DNS-over-HTTP/3 (DoH) thanks to a Google Play system update (Mainline). Meant to be the latest method for keeping ...

The Internet Domain Name System translates an alphabetical website address into the numeric Internet Protocol address associated with that site. When, for example, you type "www.examplesite.com" into ...

The new Cloudflare DNS server, 1.1.1.1, is a free, fast, and “privacy-focused” way to connect URLs to IP addresses. Cloudflare is an internet security service that helps to secure and speed up ...

A Mullvad VPN user has discovered that Android devices leak DNS queries when switching VPN servers even though the "Always-on VPN" feature was enabled with the "Block connections without VPN" option. ...