I'm not sure if this is applicable on the relay level. A bad/poisoned App or Website can do so much more than a relay. I would be more worried about cookies and fingerprinting there.

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Cookies are working with websockets (http handshake), too. Accept-Language header is also sent.

You are right. Bad relays can definitely collect more and do more harm.

Interesting, so it comes down to trusting good relays and avoiding bad ones? What do you look for in a good relay and what do you avoid to stay away from the bad?

That is really hard to say. I would assume that someone will eventually find out that the relay is probing you and requesting more than they need to, but there are no obvious red flags.

Thanks for this bit of info!

Only DMs are encrypted, everything else is open so anyone can network map... If relay operator would want they can record every single request you send on the relay.

Thank you! this about sums it up

Are relays monitoring your activity (search, bookmark, network map)?

Not sure what you mean with bookmarks and network maps, but searches are surely recorded, at least in anonymized form, at a minimum to improve service.