Chrome

This covers Chrome only; other apps keep using the system’s DNS. On Android, set Private DNS instead: Chrome follows it.

1. Open Settings → Privacy and security → Security (or go to chrome://settings/security).

2. Turn on Use secure DNS.

3. Choose Add custom DNS service provider (or select Custom in the provider list, depending on the version) and enter:

   https://dns.opdns.net/<profile-id>/<device>

   Screenshot to comeChrome's Use secure DNS setting with the opdns custom provider URL.

4. Check it works.

If the setting is greyed out, your organisation manages Chrome, or Chrome detected parental-control software, and it cannot be changed here.

DNS-over-HTTPS: profile and device from the URL path

The first path segment is the profile id, the optional second one the device name: https://dns.opdns.net/<profile-id>/<device>. Every query carries both, so logs and analytics show this device by name wherever it connects from.

How identification works