Re:Ask HN: Which DNS service do you use for your computer's ...
by red-iron-pine on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @12:08PM
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you're not wrong about the articles, but at the same time just looking at a domain is enough to allow for decent guesses to be made.
lots of hits on hackernews and jsoneditoronline.org and I can say with a reasonable degree of certainty that you're in IT or Dev. gonna start sending you ads that reflect that.
likewise, hits to missile-gayboy.jp -- a site that used to be hosted by my old employers -- also sends some pretty clear messages. I don't need to know what you're looking at specifically there but it's a japanese site that caters to a specific niche; I can sure make some assumptions.
hell, at work we don't even collect a lot of specifics on our endpoints -- domain queries are often enough to catch bad behavior
Example: They can see that I have visited Wikipedia, but not what articles I’ve read. (Other sites will leak more info due to the nature of their subdomains, but it doesn’t bother me personally.)