YouTube users be aware: Your viewing habits can be tracked

It’s important to know that video encryption is not as secure as once thought. Google, YouTube’s parent company, is not likely to patch the gaps, since it would be prohibitively expensive to create a traffic obfuscation mechanism for every user’s every video request.

(via WSJ)

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