| >I tunnel my traffic over a VPN to avoid my ISP building a profile on me. What do you believe this profile is made of? I don't mean this sarcastically. Facebook or Equifax's profile of you must be very complete and contextual. But, your ISP has: - The domains you visited, but not the specific URLs (via SSL & certificate names) - The domains you visited, but not the specific URLs (via DNS) - The IPs you visited. - The ports of those IPs. - Any unencrypted traffic, which as noted, is pretty rare these days. Do you believe that with this information your ISP can build a very meaningful profile? It seems to me that the profile which Amazon, Facebook, and a Bank, (VPN or not) can build is far more damaging. (and, I admit that just because you can't prevent the worse profiling, it doesn't mean you shouldn't mitigate what you can.) I promise, I don't mean any of this in a negative way. I'm somewhat in your boat -- I tried to do a lot for privacy via blocking and other mitigations, but I often wonder: do Amazon and Gmail effectively defeat my efforts? |