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> Behind a long unique uuid looking url which provides some measure of security by obscurity

That's not security by obscurity.

If the "uuid looking" part is generated using a csprng and has enough entropy, it has the same security properties as any other secret.

There's other issues with having the secret in the URL.



Not when the user leaks their DNS query it doesn't. Those endpoints must be one of the dumbest "vibe security" ideas I've literally ever heard of.




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