Comment by haiku2077

1 day ago

> Your ISP already has all this metadata and more from other sources

If you combine this with ECH and a good blocker, no they do not. That's exactly why Spain is blocking around 60% of the internet during football games now; the ISPs cannot tell which websites and subscribers are pirating football streams.

> Spain is blocking around 60% of the internet during football games now

[citation needed for the 60% figure]

Precisely due to these blocks is why I know that Cloudflare is NOT 60% of the WWW, not yet at least. Certainly, if Cloudflare was serving 60% of the Internet, I would consider switching my DNS to them. But that would be a privacy nightmare for another day (replacing federated ISPs with a single big centralized one? great idea /s). It is not yet the case as of today.

In fact, as of today, and even if you have a "good blocker", I, a total noob, have a high chance of reliably identifying which HN news item from the top #30 you clicked from just the addresses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44219061 . Imagine what the non-noobs at your ISP could do.