@[url=https://noauthority.social/users/SirHendrick]SirHendrick[/url] What VPN do you use if I may ask for the sake of DNS as that is the thing of it all Domain Name system. Whether you encrypt it or not what I propose is an extended proxied DNS, do you see now?
You can encrypt your router by setting to Cloud( or 9.9.9.9 and click the Dns over TLS or DNS over HTTP section on your router's address portal typically 192.196.0.0 , otherwise you can encrypt it on OS where it is linked by LAN it does not matter on your router all traffic goes from host from there and there is no way to figure that out if you encrypt that DNS with a script on host pc. These things will help you a lot. tcpdump command should show you pings to quad9's ip. And that is from basic point of view.
