It's actually very easy to figure out which article you're reading. I just did a little experiment for fun: https://github.com/ndbroadbent/nyt_privacy https://g

It's actually very easy to figure out which article you're reading. I just did a little experiment for fun: https://github.com/ndbroadbent/nyt_privacy https://github.com/ndbroadbent/nyt_privacy The wifi owners can see that you're reading nytimes.com, but they can also see how much data was transmitted. All they need to do is look up the length of each article, and compare that with how much data the server returned. Of course, I'm not too worried about hotel owners. I can imagine this technique is already being used by a lot of governments around the world.