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Re:Show HN: Ad-Free Life – Adblocking as a Service by 659087 on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @12:16PM (#14911812)
> You are getting a dedicated VPS, so there is no cross traffic sharing between other subscriptions. You can also disable logging if you don't want to graphs.

...but neither of those things tell me that you don't still have access to that data, which is kind of the whole issue.

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Re:Show HN: Ad-Free Life – Adblocking as a Service by aaomidi on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @12:28PM (#14911970)
Its DNS. How do you propose they have access to the data?
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Re:Show HN: Ad-Free Life – Adblocking as a Service by 659087 on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @12:30PM (#14911997)
DNS queries are data, and can give a motivated party plenty of insight into a user's internet usage habits.
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Re:Show HN: Ad-Free Life – Adblocking as a Service by aaomidi on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @12:36PM (#14912062)
Sure they are. However, all dns servers are going to have this issue. Even most selfhosted ones, like a self hosted pihole use Google DNS as its backend.

The data is far less valuable than your original claim of "Why would someone route their traffic through your servers" which sounds like a VPN/Proxy.

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