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Most Third World governments control ISPs and DNS queries can be easily monitored but whether those are implicative or not depends on where the content embedded
by curiousgal 10y ago
Most Third World governments control ISPs and DNS queries can be easily monitored but whether those are implicative or not depends on where the content embedded in the search results is hosted/served from.
Also, even if Google is fully HTTPS, if a query returns images hosted on unsecured websites, those urls will be plainly visible and hence implicative.
Edit: The embedded thumbnails are actually encrypted as pointed by the comment below.
- manufacturious 10y agoI was curious and just checked -- until you click on an image in google's search results to see it fullsize in the semi-lightbox, you're actually getting the "thumbnail" sent from google as a b64 encoded string
- curiousgal 10y agoWell, that's good news. thank you for checking, I stand corrected.
- luke-stanley 10y agoI suspect it might just be represented that way in the browser, and that it's not sent that way.
- manufacturious 10y agoInteresting thought, but wouldn't it kinda have to be done that way? Otherwise you'd see missing images on image SERPs, and you'd see the delay of thumbnails loading due to slower source servers.
- mkj 10y agoBrowsers doing url prefetching for top results would also leak some information?
- mamon 10y agoSo now we consider US to be Third World country? :)
- rosaldo 10y agowondered about the same thing