It doesn't really help. The ISP needs to route you somewhere to get the data, so they'll need to know who you want to talk to. Even if they don't see the DNS name (like if you used a third party DNS server) they can still associate the IP address with someone.

There's things like TOR and VPNs that can route your information through other third parties first, but that impacts performance pretty significantly.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago

Depending on where you're going even IP addresses are getting to the point that they aren't helpful. IP addresses are likely to belong to a cloud provider, and unless they are hosting email or a service that requires a reverse record, all you'd get is the cloud provider's information.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah, but often enough multiple sites share a single IP. It would already be better if the ISP (and everyone in between) didn't know whether I wanted pink-fluffy-unicorns.com or hardcore-midget-bdsm.com.