Comment by IggleSniggle

Comment by IggleSniggle 14 hours ago

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DNS lookups are still frequently in the clear, and even if they're not, that just means you're trusting some DNS-over-HTTPS provider. The incentives are perverse.

And of course whoever you are performing your search with, like, oh, an ad company like Google, Meta, or Facebook? They just might use that search data for something.

simonw 14 hours ago

Exactly. Google or Meta can correlate behavioral data like this. Your ISP cannot do that by intercepting your searches.

I care about accuracy when it comes to privacy conversations. I don't want people wasting their time on theories that aren't true when they should be focusing on the real issues at stake.