> It's not surveillance that's the big problem for static content.
Why would you say this? Surveilling what URLs someone is accessing / content they are watching / books they're checking out of the library has been a major security issue, historically.
HTTPS doesn't conceal the domain, or the length, or the order of requests. It's less of an issue for Google, because so much stuff comes from one domain. For small sites, figuring out who read what isn't a hard problem. In practice, you can probably buy that info from an ad tracking service.
You didn't qualify your claim as only pertaining to small sites. You simply said surveillance is not the big problem for static content. Given that most static content is served by large sites and the article is about Youtube, you haven't really supported that claim.
Why would you say this? Surveilling what URLs someone is accessing / content they are watching / books they're checking out of the library has been a major security issue, historically.