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They still know which sites you visit even with https.
by ars 4y ago
They still know which sites you visit even with https.
- kenniskrag 4y agoonly the destination IP. TLS encryption is inside tcp and around the http protocol.
- hombre_fatal 4y agoYou don’t need to copy and paste your reply everywhere it’s relevant on HN. Even us flea brains can carry your remarks in our head and apply them to similar comments.
- geoffeg 4y agoAnd, unless you setup an appropriate DNS server and the default from your ISP, then they also know that you looked up the site's hostname(s).
- pessimizer 4y agoThey don't know the page. In the case of this site it probably doesn't matter, but which page you're looking at is always going to be more interesting and informative than which site you looked at. When the prosecutor is looking through your internet records and they see 50 wikipedia hits in some relevant time period, they're going to be upset that https exists.