Okay, I appreciate knowing that information.

Some do, but I’m not aware of many of them, especially not on the home side. Some of the more business-style routers I know do, and some home routers do. But to my knowledge, most home routers do not.

Oh, one other thing you may consider doing. Put your network on five gigahertz only and disable 2.4 gigahertz entirely because 2.4 gigahertz goes farther so somebody could try to hack your network from a physical longer distance away. Whereas on five gigahertz they would have to be physically closer to do so.

Well, I can’t help you much with what router to get, but one thing I do is use ControlD.com free DNS. They have several levels of blocking you can do for free. You can do no blocking at all, you can block known malware, you can block known malware, and advertising, or you can block known malware, advertising, and big social media. Since this is on the router DNS setting, it will apply to every device as long as it is on your network. And then you can also set it up on your Android or iPhone so that when you are on mobile data, it also keeps the same level of blocking.

Through a giftcard, yes. I have been eating Monero since January of 2023

In the government-controlled fiat system, you are right. In Monero, you are wrong.

Glad I could help.

More and more merchants are beginning to accept it directly and you can check out the Monerica directory, XMRBazaar or Monero Market to find them. If you cannot find what you need directly for monero then you can get thousands of merchant gift cards from Coinsbee, Coin Cards, or Cake Pay.

There really is no privacy benefit, so I don’t think it would be worth doing.

Best options by far for financial privacy are cash and Monero.

I added ControlD p2 server for blocking ads, trackers, and malwRe to my familys’ phones, my phone, and my router. The fact that it blocks known malware by default is a big selling point for me.

I suggest ControlD.com p2 server as its free and kills known malware, trackers, and ads with no work other than adding it. They have a p3 that blocks big social and p0 blocks nothing.

Yeah, fair enough

I’m assuming you probably have a smartphone. In which case, I would just use your Wi-Fi hotspot instead.

Not that I’m aware of, no. But I don’t have much reason to use that, so I haven’t really looked for something like that either.

Simplex is the better choice imo.

Financial institution security is quite frankly a freaking joke. My bank only has the options for 11 character passwords at maximum. It’s like oh come on that is way too easy these days

Not at the moment. No. I used to have one of those Netgate firewalls using pfsense i could do vpn on but i really didnt see the point. By using ControlD as my DNS i block known malware, ads, and trackers for free. Obviously that does not protect from everything, but it goes a long way towards helping.

I use ControlD on my router and mobile devices

It eats them like cookie monster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye8mB6VsUHw