> Oblivious HTTP is primarily useful where privacy risks associated with possible stateful treatment of requests are sufficiently negative that the cost of deploying this protocol can be justified.<p>It would be great if they included some examples to help readers relate to situations, but I can understand (or guess) that a document like this wants to stay academic and distant from real world since it probably won't age well?
The use case that's been talked about most so far is browser telemetry.<p>See also:
<a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/112/materials/slides-112-ohai-oblivious-http-00" rel="nofollow">https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/112/materials/slides-11...</a>
btw, <a href="https://ietf-wg-ohai.github.io/oblivious-http/draft-ietf-ohai-ohttp.html" rel="nofollow">https://ietf-wg-ohai.github.io/oblivious-http/draft-ietf-oha...</a> is the latest version of this draft.