Reply to post: Explanation please?

DNS lookups can reveal every web page you visit, says German boffin

frank ly

Explanation please?

I still don't understand how analysis of DNS records for my IP address can reveal that I looked at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism (or whatever). Are they saying that Wikipedia's responses are different in such a way that the page can be distinguished from other pages?

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