What Your ISP Can See — And the Limits of What Can Hide It

Your internet service provider sits between your devices and everything else. Every connection you make passes through their infrastructure first. Understanding what that means in practice — what they observe, what HTTPS hides, and what survives encryption — is essential to reasoning honestly about network-level privacy. Most privacy discussions focus on the applications and services you use. Far fewer focus on the infrastructure those applications run over. Your ISP is not incidental to the con