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Yes, they can; regardless of your resolver they can collect that if you're not using DNSec.

Same goes for https handshakes leaking your target domain(otherwise SNI wouldn't work), so DNSSec alone is fairly pointless for regular web traffic obfuscation; and of course the IP is in each TCP frame regardless.

It becomes more a matter of are they doing it yet(re:DNS monitoring in this manner); with enough people using third party resolvers(I'd argue google's public DNS already has enough usage to warrant it) they will be.

Optimally you'd VPN at all times to a provider you trust or one you've setup yourself.

What it all really boils down to though is that the populace simply can't be trusted(nor should they need to be) to make themselves acceptably secure from third party monitoring. We need to have much more discussion around data privacy and retention for ISP's.

It's not a matter of if the data will be misused, it's truly a matter of when and it's not fair to the general public.



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