Chromium's Impact on Root DNS Traffic

Re:Chromium's Impact on Root DNS Traffic by bo1024 on Friday August 21, 2020 @08:42AM (#24234385)

This post contains a bunch of information about the question, but it doesn't seem to actually address the question.

The question is: does Chromium send the first word I type to my ISP?

The answer appears to be: yes.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Chromium's Impact on Root DNS Traffic by throwaway18231 on Friday August 21, 2020 @08:48AM (#24234427)

I justed tested this myself via logging the DNS queries, and yes, this is true.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Chromium's Impact on Root DNS Traffic by rfoo on Friday August 21, 2020 @09:24AM (#24234670)

> the first word

No.

The answer appears to be yes if you said "the only word", though.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Chromium's Impact on Root DNS Traffic by JeremyBanks on Friday August 21, 2020 @10:17AM (#24235059)

...which the first word would be, as you typed it?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Chromium's Impact on Root DNS Traffic by bagacrap on Friday August 21, 2020 @10:51AM (#24235365)

I think this only happens after you press enter, not as part of the omnibox real time results. After all the infobar mentioned in the article definitely only appears after you commit the search query.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Chromium's Impact on Root DNS Traffic by notatoad on Friday August 21, 2020 @10:27AM (#24235145)

depends how fast you type - there's a delay on the query so it's not re-querying for every keystroke. but probably yes.

[ Parent | on HN ]