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What good is it? TLS SNI already exposes the domain name. Even if that is addressed in the far future, you still can't hide the IP addresses you're connecting to. The only real engineering problem with DNS is authentication, which is adequately solved (however poorly) with DNSSEC and operating systems shipping local resolvers.

Moreover, whatever promises CloudFlare and others make, they're still centralization points and therefore ripe targets for infiltration and exfiltration.

The moment browsers actually solve the privacy problem will be the moment 9/10ths of the internet goes poof and disappears along with their monetization strategies. As long as Google is viable then these are just tricks arguably doing more harm (increasing reliance on centralized vendors, increasing complexity of the software stack) than good.




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