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Re:How to keep your ISP’s nose out of your browser history w... by dfee on Sunday April 08, 2018 @05:38PM (#16788585)
Is it? I would guess that people already split their traffic between a home workstation connected through a local ISP, a mobile phone connected through a national carrier ISP, and a work computer that is connected with a (third) enterprise ISP. The concerns that linger in the comments here, are about the dangers of exposing even a slice of your metadata can be disastrous.

Therefore, going from three to eight ISPs is arguably worse as your exposed to nearly 3x the risk of exposure.

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Re:How to keep your ISP’s nose out of your browser history w... by StanislavPetrov on Monday April 09, 2018 @04:01AM (#16791197)
The more information any one entity has about any individual, the more accurate a profile they can create. The more thinly spread your metadata is, the harder it is for any one corporation to create a profile. Clearly there is no perfect solution, it depends on what sort of privacy risks you are trying to mitigate.
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