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You give data away, true, but I wouldn’t say DNS lookups == browsing data. Example: They can see that I have visited Wikipedia, but not what articles I’ve read

• red-iron-pine 3y ago
  you're not wrong about the articles, but at the same time just looking at a domain is enough to allow for decent guesses to be made. lots of hits on hackernews and jsoneditoronline.org and I can say with a reasonable degree of certainty that you're in IT or Dev. gonna start sending you ads that reflect that. likewise, hits to missile-gayboy.jp -- a site that used to be hosted by my old employers -- also sends some pretty clear messages. I don't need to know what you're looking at specifically there but it's a japanese site that caters to a specific niche; I can sure make some assumptions. hell, at work we don't even collect a lot of specifics on our endpoints -- domain queries are often enough to catch bad behavior