thisischemistry t1_j5w27ie wrote on January 25, 2023 at 11:28 PM

Reply to comment by life_is_just_peachy in Everyone Wants Your Email Address. Think Twice Before Sharing It. by 08830

Your ISP can do the same thing, the sites you visit can do the same thing. At some point your data is vulnerable, the only true way to be safe is to be a luddite and not generate any data at all.

Stuff like Hide My Email is there so you can have some measure of control over who sends you email and it works well for that.

uzlonewolf t1_j5xfb1e wrote on January 26, 2023 at 5:37 AM

Fortunately ISPs can only see domain names and not full URLs when HTTPS is used (which is what like 99% of the internet uses at this point).

5225225 t1_j60gvos wrote on January 26, 2023 at 9:02 PM

That, and if you have encrypted DNS and the server you're connecting to uses Encrypted Client Hello (https://blog.cloudflare.com/encrypted-client-hello/), the domain name is hidden too.

It doesn't help if only one site is behind an IP address, but it does help if you're connecting to a share host where many sites can be behind a single IP, your ISP will have a harder time figuring out which site you're visiting.