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it is privacy. The ISP and routers can see the IP addresses but that gives a lot less info than the url since most websites will pull from a changing set of IPs
by adgjlsfhk1 4y ago
it is privacy. The ISP and routers can see the IP addresses but that gives a lot less info than the url since most websites will pull from a changing set of IPs due to server changes, cdns, and 3rd party content (e.g. ads). For a large number of sites, the IP addresses will just tell you that someone is looking at a website hosted by cloudflare/aws.
(also just getting rid of the name is effective at getting the info away from low tech surveillance like schools where someone on the route is mildly interested in seeing/blocking connections but won't bother if it's annoying to do)
- PaulHoule 4y agoThere are many content blocking solutions that work at the DNS level. Encrypted DNS will bypass those.
- Avamander 4y agoOnly if you don't control the device, in which case you're dead in the water anyways.
- PaulHoule 4y agoI am thinking about the system they use to censor the WiFi at the gym which works at the network level.
- quickthrower2 4y agoGym… and China
- hedora 4y agoDoesn't the TLS / HTTPS handshake still send the destination host name in cleartext?
- adgjlsfhk1 4y agohttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/sdk-java-technology/8?topic=handshake-tls-13-protocol https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/sdk-java-technology/8?topic=hand... doesn't look like it (at least with tls 1.3)