Internet, kids: One change makes browsing safer and more private.

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. While there are lots of ways to protect yourself when browsing online, there’s one quick way to protect everyone who uses your home’s internet network at once, by using something called an alternative Domain Name System resolver. You probably use the DNS resolver run by your internet service provider, if you got the router from them and never changed the settings. You can use a free public DNS resolver that will automatically block known malicious domain names and that won’t be giving away information about your browsing. As mentioned above, you can also update the DNS on a specific device to use a different DNS resolver than the one your home network does.