Most of the negative comments on this story are in the context of stopping a state actor whose specifically targeting you. The rest of this comment is covering

Most of the negative comments on this story are in the context of stopping a state actor whose specifically targeting you. The rest of this comment is covering the "drag net" effect of this legislation - any one individual is not being targeted, it's a situation where everything is caught up. If you change nothing then your provider will be able to track your DNS traffic (site you're going to) and unprotected traffic (non-HTTPS). You can't use another DNS server because the protocol is in the clear so they could just track that even if it's not on their network - though it would be real work and they might not bother to do so. Using a VPN will protect all your network traffic which means both DNS looking up the domain and traffic to/from the sites you're going to. Note that the VPN provider should be outside the UK jurisdiction - from there decide on your level of paranoia.