It doesn't know it, it passes the encrypted content between the DNS resolver and the requester

The packets are encrypted! Oracle doesn't know the keys unless they read the RAM of the VPS

How does Google know the request is for example.com? It's encrypted. They only know my VPS requested some domain name from CF.

You're assuming Oracle goes inside my VPS and dumps the RAM?

Just remove the battery?

So your retirement fund should be looking healthy, that's a good thing.

How would you correlate those two things? Let's say I access cloudflare DNS from one proxy and the request over the other proxy. How would Google know that they are the same device?

There are multiple chip and RAM manufacturers. They are all swamped with orders

They can, but they shouldn't. The AI boom won't last forever. The RAM, CPU, GPU manufacturers should get the maximum value now to increase manufacturing capacity. It will be needed later for other things.

For example, the crypto mining boom first caused shortages in the GPU market, but the following generation was a really good value. 3080s still sold out, but now it was to gamers. Without the crypto boom, the manufacturers wouldn't have increased the capacity as much and fewer GPUs would been sold to gamers in the next generation

What? The stock market is doing great

S&P 500 up 9% YTD, 62% in the past 5 years

Like it or not, pricing is the most efficient way of distributing limited resources. Unless you want people in RAM lines

The question is whether Oracle working together with Cloudflare is a more likely scenario or the "trusted" VPN provider literally selling your data anyway.

I think a trusted DNS server and an Oracle proxy is going to be more secure than trusting one provider with all your data

You don't need to use cloudflare at all, use cloud 9 or adguard if you like those better

If you don't trust any of them, you can use ODoH, where cloudflare gets an encrypted request from a proxy. The proxy is only aware of your IP and CF is only aware of the request and the proxy's IP. So if the proxy doesn't report your IP to CF, CF doesn't know who you are.

You can host the ODoH relay on your VPS and it will protect your DNS queries from the provider, while being able to monitor that the provider doesn't send your IP to CF. CF gets queries from the VPS, but not able to see your real IP. Your ISP similarly only sees encrypted blobs.

You realize you can encrypt your traffic, get your DNS over HTTPS and use encrypted client hello (ECH), right? Oracle sees that you connect to some cloudflare or google IP, mostly. They can't even see which site you're going to.