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Re:Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his I... by drivebycomment on Monday September 06, 2021 @12:42AM (#28430332)
What threat model are you trying to protect from by using VPN, and why is HTTPS + DoH (DNS over HTTPS) not sufficient for that threat model ?
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Re:Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his I... by crtasm on Monday September 06, 2021 @01:00PM (#28435690)
HTTPS still reveals the domain you're requesting, last I checked.
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Re:Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his I... by josephcsible on Monday September 06, 2021 @01:06PM (#28435767)
The eSNI/ECH extensions fix that.
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Re:Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his I... by bigiain on Monday September 06, 2021 @06:51PM (#28438995)
It can’t fix the problem that it reveals the ip address you’re connecting to though. Even if the sites you’re visiting are all on servers that virtual host heaps of other sites as well, it certainly narrows that haystack down to a handful of bits of hay with your bright shiny needle standing out in the middle.
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Re:Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his I... by crtasm on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @12:47PM (#28459685)
...if you manually turn it on in Firefox and the websites you're connecting to support it.

I don't know where things stand with other browsers.

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Re:Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his I... by junon on Monday September 06, 2021 @04:46AM (#28431708)
Because not everything uses a bloated, web-first protocol.
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