Why does a website know a user’s DNS resolver isn’t it enought for to use IP address alone to track analytics ?
It just adds another metric. I don’t get why it is exposed at all.
Services don’t inherently know what DNS you use.
They have to explicitly send your browser a unique domain and monitor on their end what server tries to resolve it from their authoritative server.
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