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SSL operates after name resolution. It's one way that information about your browsing habits is not protected by application-layer encryption; the domains you're visiting are available to your DNS server.
Unless you're using DNS over TLS!
Or DNS over https, but that's kind of gross.
No, you misunderstood the parent comment. Your connection to the DNS server being encrypted doesn't change the fact that the DNS server knows the domains you are resolving