I was thinking about the privacy risks of QUIC and there is one where
I'm not sure what to think of it, and for which I cannot find any
discussion in the archives of the WG.

Long-term QUIC connections may enable some user tracking, even when
the user changes its IP address, without even needing HTTP cookies or
things like that.

I am not sure it is a real problem in practice because it's not new
(HTTP/2 offered similar possibilities), there are many other ways to
track users (HTTP cookies, browser fingerprinting, Google Analytics),
and they even work cross-servers. But it can be a problem for
privacy-oriented technologies (QUIC cannot currently work over Tor but
may be in the future?)

I do not find discussions about that. Was it considered? (If so, you
are welcome to reply "Search with mailarchive yourself" but I prefer
if it comes with URLs and/or approximate datetimes.) Is it, for
instance, a good idea to advise privacy-oriented clients to always
shut down QUIC connections when IP address changes?





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