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Re:Building fast.com by kekub on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @07:50PM (#12258496)
The DNS-Query or IP could be used to identify somebody accessing fast.com.
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Re:Building fast.com by detaro on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @08:02PM (#12258562)
That still doesn't allow the ISP to tell the difference between e.g. wget and a browser via a current User-Agent-String, thanks to HTTPS.

The domain is exposed over various ways, yes, but that's the point of the idea to connect to fast.com regularly to trick theoretical shaping based on it.

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Re:Building fast.com by pornel on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @08:34PM (#12258700)
List of supported ciphers is unencrypted and very UA-specific.
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