The don’t know how, and they won’t go through the trouble of learning how.
Get Opera, use the built in VPN.
Not sure to what degree of OpSec that you’re looking for here, so I’m going for a blanket approach:
Step 1) Make sure that your computer is clean (e.g. no hijacked security certificates or parent-malware) or if that’s not an option, use a Live CD (or USB) Linux distribution. Even the Ubuntu Desktop ISO comes pre-loaded as a means of testing out features before installing, and serves as the basis of a “throw-away” system (I modified the ISO with “Cubic” so that I get some extra features) when I need to inspect/diagnose something, and I run it without a hard drive.
Step 2) Get a VPN account. IPredator works well.
Step 3) If your primary system is clean and you don’t want to dual-boot into a LiveCD like I mentioned, then you could run a secondary system in VirtualBox. When finished, revert the Virtual Machine to a snapshot (e.g. fresh install, recent system updates, etc.)
You are young and have hormones. No surprise there. Just don’t let your hormones get you into trouble and try to remember, that porn is not the real world. It is fantasy.
Of course, be very careful of the sites that you are visiting. You certainly don’t want to infect your parent’s network with malware, adware, or worse yet ransomware. Also, as someone else pointed out, it should be consensual and legal. It would be even harder to explain to your parents if law enforcement knocks on your door.
Ha! Yeah I would stay away from everything “R. Kelly” for awhile
OP seems like a troll
If someone in your home is an IT professional, they may have something that allows them to view traffic that passes over your router. And obviously, if they installed software on your computer, they may be able to monitor it that way.
The only real way to prevent people from viewing your traffic is by using TOR, but that’s just plain overkill in this situation, and depending on what country you live in, could be illegal to use. Unless you have reason to believe your parents are trying to watch your internet usage, you should be fine. If they replace the router with a professional firewall, there may be need for concern going forward.
The answer is yes. Anyone with administrator privileges can monitor all network activity in a variety of ways.
You can do a lot of things to protect your privacy like browse in Private/Incognito mode to keep easy to find browsing history off your computer.
Use a virtual machine or a Live operating system that boots off a USB drive. TAILS has about everything you need to find porn and beat off AND the name kind of suits your needs.
You can also subscribe to a VPN service. If you don’t have a a source of income you wish to use for online purchases you can often pay for VPN services using gift cards from popular stores. Private Internet Access is a VPN service that I think accepts third-party gift cards.
A VPN service will encrpt your network traffic, the administrators on your network will not be able to view the details of your traffic. However this offers no privacy for browsing history left on your machine.
Another option is to go offline. This would require you to download porn and store it on removable media like a USB drive. You can encrypt your USB drive with software like Bitkocker or you can encrypt individual files with software like Axcrypt. With Axcrypt people will be able to read the file name but they’ll have to input a password to decrypt the file or view what type of file it is.
If you want to get all wild and crazy you can look into steganography to conceal your porn inside another file type like an image or music file out in the open where everyone can see it. You could have a folder sitting on the desktop of your family computer with all your favorite “songs” or “photos”. Your parents would require special software and your password to extract the porn file, if they even had a clue it was there. A 1GB photo of your family pet could be a clue that you’ve used steganography to hide something inside the photo, so use common sense if you think this would raise suspicion. OpenPuff is a pretty simple steganography program to use.
Goodluck
Depends on how tech savvy they are
Dude, you’re fine. Remember to use private mode or clear your history. Asking that question here you’re going to answers from experts with so much knowledge you’re going to end up with a VPN subscription, on a burner system.
The ISP likely knows all sites your modem has visited.
If you browse sites with HTTPS the ISP will only know that you’ve visited the site and how often, but not which parts of the site itself.
If you browse sites over HTTP (not Secure) then the ISP will know you’ve visited the site, how often, and exactly what parts of that site.
Using an Incognito/Private browsing mode will prevent your computer from storing a record of the browsing history, deleting or clearing your history/temporary internet files/saved sessions and other data will do roughly the same thing.
If need be your parents might be able to contact the ISP and request a print out of the modems history. If you want to be able to evade this kind of monitoring (which is honestly a little over the top imo) you need a VPN or TOR or VPN+TOR (extreme).
Enable DNS over HTTPS in Firefox to prevent most logging: Connection settings in Firefox | Firefox Help
They would have to go onto your computer and check hustoey
. Clear history and clear cookies. Also stop jerking you kill a kitten everytime
Maybe stop watching porn??
Seems like it would be a good suprise to leave them once you go off to college or move out. Surprise, your functioning child can do just fine AND have a porn habit on the side.
If your parents arent tech people, then you are 99.99% safe they dont know how to find your porn habbit other than undeleted web browser history. ( Or maybe your google search history)
You can use brave browser with their built in tor mode if super concerned. However, if they aren’t tech savvy I’d say that’s overkill. Just use incognito mode on your browser.
Incognito or in private browsing
And VPN.
They’ll never find it. They wouldn’t care if they did.
Username definitely checks out.
Unless they know how to use Wireshark and intercept/decode/filter traffic, have some custom DNS set up, or are routinely viewing logs, I think you’re fine. You mentioned you’re doing it over WiFi - this adds a layer of complexity to capturing packets in Wireshark, as not all NIC’s are capable of promiscuous or monitor mode, which just adds an extra layer of “security” for you.
If you’re worried about it, then make sure you are being smart - use Private Mode, don’t click ads for anything, or only view it while in a VM if you want to be really sure – the TAILS VM comes to mind, which will delete all activity each time it powers down.
As others have mentioned, your traffic is still viewable by your ISP, but unless your parents have a strong networking background, you are probably fine at the router level.