One cannot trust manufacturers, it's common practice to put backdoors. That's why you simply get an OpenWRT compatible router and flash it. It does not require

One cannot trust manufacturers, it's common practice to put backdoors. That's why you simply get an OpenWRT compatible router and flash it. It does not require networking experience, just a bit of curiosity and following a bunch of well documented steps. Knowledge is required to build a decent setup. It doesn't end there for a proper environment, you also want a VPN, this can be configured at the router level. Oh, what about an ad blocker, blacklisting all known ads serving hosts perhaps? Given the time we spent hooked online, worth gaining what really is vital knowledge for a decent internet access, or the internet will gain most of your precious attention.