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Re:Brave, the false sensation of privacy by atatatat on Friday June 18, 2021 @09:39AM (#27550149)
the timing and size of everyone's connection to everything is "not very much"?
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Re:Brave, the false sensation of privacy by vntok on Friday June 18, 2021 @09:45AM (#27550221)
Indeed it is not. Unless of course you find a way to map the timing and size of a pageload to its potentially sensitive content, in which case do tell.
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Re:Brave, the false sensation of privacy by HWR_14 on Friday June 18, 2021 @04:03PM (#27554350)
> Unless of course you find a way to map the timing and size of a pageload to its potentially sensitive content, in which case do tell.

Wasn't there a HN story about people doing exactly that to figure out what condition people were looking up on WebMD? I don't recall when.

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