Google plans to test proxy scheme to hide IP addresses

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https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/23/google_ip_proxy/

[8organicbits]

They likely believe that they can sufficnently track users without the IP address, so they want to prevent other ad networks from using it. Anti-competitive under the guise of privacy.

[tiernano → 8organicbits]

and by proxying the traffic, they can MITM it too...

[8organicbits → tiernano]

Looks like TLS will encrypt traffic end to end, but plain HTTP would travel in the clear.

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/ip-protection#core-requireme...