Not necessarily, but the odds of getting popped by a heretofore undisclosed backdoor that your ISP didn’t think would be a big deal are eliminated entirely, and you can also do a lot more interesting things with your home infrastructure, if that’s your thing.
And that’s why you should run your own router. Preferably using open firmware/OS like ddwrt or pfSense/opnSense.
I’m curious, does running open source software somehow exempt you from getting malware?
Not necessarily, but the odds of getting popped by a heretofore undisclosed backdoor that your ISP didn’t think would be a big deal are eliminated entirely, and you can also do a lot more interesting things with your home infrastructure, if that’s your thing.
You also get regular updates with open source firmware. Many of the ISP provided routers will never see an update.