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Re:Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance ris... by pkulak on Friday April 06, 2018 @02:08PM (#16775714)
> they can indeed see which IP addresses you connect to

They can see the hostname, actually, because DNS isn't encrypted. And even if you run DNS over TLS, it doesn't matter because of SNI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication).

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Re:Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance ris... by jacquesm on Friday April 06, 2018 @02:16PM (#16775803)
Ah right you are, so yes, they can get to that. Even so, that's just a host, which is a far cry from the full URL which is typically what Facebook and Google have access to through 'like' buttons and analytics.
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