My argument is that the "hiding your IP is pointless because the third party will get your IP anyway" is a nonsense argument. The DNS query being prefetched may

My argument is that the "hiding your IP is pointless because the third party will get your IP anyway" is a nonsense argument. The DNS query being prefetched may have nothing to do with the current site you're on. If I go to a page that links to a bunch of sketchy websites, I don't want my IP (and thus, identity) tied to those sketchy websites just because I hovered my mouse over the links.