However, it is far from impossible, but there is a better way. If you go to Adaptive QoS, there will be a section called “Web History”. Click on it and it will be disabled by default. This is an important aspect that most routers have adopted,
because even if there is support for detailed browsing history, it is almost always disabled by default.
After enabling it, I waited a few minutes
The list started to populate. And the information is quite detailed,
because I could see when a particular device accessed the actual phone number list hostname (not just the IP address),
but of course the list will also include any automatic callbacks from various devices to some mother servers (many apps would like to do this). The question is whether the VPN will hide the user’s browsing history.
And the answer is yes. In the previous screenshot, two devices were connected to the Internet (and what websites were accessed), but there was a third device that had ProtonVPN enabled, and it is not listed here. And believe me, I was using that device during that time, but no information was displayed. It still appeared in the Connection section we talked about earlier, but not here.
How do TP-Link routers store browsing history?
Like the Asus router, TP-Link routers keep some general logs separated into categories, making it difficult to identify actual connections to hostnames.
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For the purposes of this article, I took a TP-Link AX73 and to check the logs, I went to the Advanced section (from the horizontal menu), scrolled down to System (from the vertical menu), and then clicked on System Log. From here, you display social proof and user-generated content can check all the logs or just a specific category, which includes Firewall, NAT, DDNS, UPnP, IP and MAC Binding, Access Control, Traffic Statistics, Domain Logging, and more. I mean, there are a lot of categories to choose from, but nothing specific enough to make the browsing history understandable to the client device.
I already mentioned Wi-Fi-router-keeps-
That Asus implemented the web access facebook users feature for this very reason, but does TP-Link have something similar? No, because TP-Link thought it would be cooler to make it part of HomeShield.