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> Encrypted SNI prevents the hostname for each connection from leaking in plaintext.

True, but almost nobody uses that yet. Youtube certainly doesn't.

> DNS-over-HTTPS prevents anyone on the local network from snooping on the DNS lookup to realize which connections are for a given domain name.

The author of TFA is MITMing their own Apple TV. In that scenario, they could just configure their own DNS proxy as well. But given that there's no eSNI, it's not even necessary.

And even if you'd need to MITM all flows to and from YouTube on your local network – that would still be only a few Mbit/s per device, given YouTube's (non-premium) potato-quality data rates.



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