In light of yesterday's revelation from Millie Weaver, it occurred to me that https encryption will not protect you from profiling:
dig(1) prints the following IP addresses:
kotakuinaction2.win. 53 IN A 172.67.133.248
kotakuinaction2.win. 53 IN A 104.28.26.95
kotakuinaction2.win. 53 IN A 104.28.27.95
thedonald.win. 287 IN A 104.26.9.222
thedonald.win. 287 IN A 104.26.8.222
thedonald.win. 287 IN A 172.67.73.6
This means someone monitoring the network will flag you as someone with objectionable beliefs, even though they might not see the actual content passing through. Likewise for someone who only browses CNN, reddit or even Gab. I do not know if the .win network is in on it.
Everyone is being binned into sets, groups connecting to the same network are likely to hold similar views and therefore open to targeted agitation and false flags. Like what the interview says, they know what pushes your buttons, they know what makes you rage, they know what gets you worked up. None of a particular network's stance on issues are secret, so they just need to tailor propaganda to get a group working towards their goals.
Encrypted DNS will not protect you either, since it is completely dependent on the provider, not to mention a centralized solution. Furthermore, you'll still need to make a connection to the web server serving the content.
While it may be possible to defeat profiling with fake traffic generators, you yourself remains vulnerable to the networking effects of (likely deliberate) polarization.
PS. Long time lurker, and reddit spacing is atrocious.
Why would you think for a single second that both media and hardware wouldn't be targets of the highest priority for those who want to control society?
The Snowden leaks more-or-less confirmed this. I'm begrudgingly living with the thought of being completely hopeless against surveillance from domestic three-letter-agencies if they ever wanted my attention by being boring. They have no reason to make my or most of our lives hell. They can look but they have no reason to touch. We really, really, just wanted to grill and play video games.
The darker, preventable reality that we (I?) are fighting is the chances of whatever sinister forces shifting the overton window getting access to those same tools, framework, whatever. Implementing their sick, perverse, Stasi-esque bullshit with their infernal, psychotic worldview. They've already more-or-less taken over silicon valley. The FAANG's (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google) likely already know about your wrongthinker history here and elsewhere and willfully prescreen you ever since Damore. Any savvy enough tech person that can read between the lines knows this. Once they completely take over the country, it'll be mandatory melanotan+estradiol injections for your one state-allowed child or god-knows-what-the-fuck I don't even know what the hell they want anymore.
Also fuck China. Fuck TikTok. Fuck Xi Jinping. Mainland Chinese "culture" is a disgrace. 2,000 years of culture and the commies pissed it away. Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong are worthy of your respect. China most certainly is not.
It's not hidden at all, and none of it is secret. Officially they are functions for product testing during the manufacturing process, and many of them actually are just that.
You've just got to take them at their word that some of them aren't also backdoors.