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fix: add privacy concern on client tracking
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This flexibility supports a spectrum of use cases—from fully local client-side fetch strategies to cooperative client-server resolution pipelines.
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Finally, there MAY exist additional privacy concerns while using a provider query parameter that make a single client easily tracked. For instance, if a malicious or noisy tracking entity starts encoded provider hints into all their URLs.
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### Alternatives
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There were considered other alternatives, but they typically fail to address all the goals/requirements above. Some of these can be seen at [hackmd.io/@vasco-santos/S1IKn51-eg](https://hackmd.io/@vasco-santos/S1IKn51-eg).

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