Comment on Firefox 149 adds built-in free VPN with 50GB monthly data

• XLE@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This is true regardless. HTTPS encryption keeps a man in the middle from seeing your URL. They just get the domain name, which is a lot, but it isn’t your credentials.

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  • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They don’t know the URL but they know the IP address so … yes, they also can get the URL

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    • RaisinCrazyFool@kopitalk.net ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      IP addresses do not map to URLs.

      They might map to domains, but not necessarily.

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    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You cannot reliably get the URL from an IP, there’s no direct mapping, especially with shared hosting.

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