Re: Meh
Pre SNI, you could only have been 1 HTTPS cert per IP address*. So a pretty trivial reverse DNS lookup will would have revealed the site you were visiting**. HTTPS won't stop a MitM knowing that you went to en.wikipedia.org. But they cannot see the specific pages within Wikipedia that you visited.
*It was technically possible to do multiple subdomains with a wildcard (eg *.theregister.co.uk could multi tennant forums and www and whatever else on the same IP address). It was technically possible to do a SAN cert (eg, Google could have got a single certificate for google.com, YouTube.com, gmail.com etc.) But for the most part, if you wanted HTTPS (pre SNI), you had to buy a dedicated IP address for it.
**TOR or a VPN through a trustworthy provider are your friends to that end.
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