VPN & DNS

If you’re looking to make your everyday internet use a little more private and controlled, this corner of INDEX brings together some of the most practical building blocks: VPNs to hide your IP address and encrypt traffic, DNS services to filter what your devices connect to, and a few broader privacy tools that fit naturally alongside them. Mullvad, IVPN, and Proton VPN all focus on reducing network-level tracking and routing traffic through encrypted servers, with privacy-minded touches like no-logs policies, open-source work, kill-switch or firewall controls, WireGuard support, leak-checking tools, multi-hop options, and censorship-circumvention features depending on the service. WireGuard itself is here too, for people who want the underlying open-source VPN protocol and software for building encrypted tunnels directly.

The DNS side is especially useful if you want protection and filtering that works across devices or whole networks. NextDNS, AdGuard DNS, and Control D let you block combinations of malicious domains, ads, trackers, phishing, malware, adult content, unwanted apps, or other categories, with encrypted DNS setup options and dashboards for things like allow/deny lists, analytics, logs, device rules, and policy management. Rounding things out, Firefox and Proton point to the wider privacy ecosystem: a browser with tracker blocking, extensions, encrypted sync, and useful everyday tools; and a suite that combines VPN with encrypted email, calendar, storage, documents, password management, 2FA, video meetings, and more. Taken together, these listings are a solid starting point whether you want a simple privacy upgrade, tighter family or device filtering, or more hands-on control over how your traffic moves online.