34 Years of the Digest ... founded August 21, 1981Copyright © 2015 E. William Horne. All Rights Reserved.The Telecom Digest for Nov 10, 2015
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| Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2015 19:41:54 -0500 From: Ron <ron@see.below> To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org. Subject: Re: AT&T's plan to watch your web browsing - and what you can do about it Message-ID: <qgqv3b5064v0n2lh77tn6p8ng02ch9ccqj@4ax.com> Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> wrote: >Want to opt out? It could cost up to $744 extra per year. > >by Jon Brodkin > >If you have AT&T's gigabit Internet service and wonder why it seems so >affordable, here's the reason - AT&T is boosting profits by rerouting all >your Web browsing to an in-house traffic scanning platform, analyzing >your Internet habits, then using the results to deliver personalized ads >to the websites you visit, e-mail to your inbox, and junk mail to your >front door. Agreed, AT&T is slime. This is privacy violation by default. Of course, that $744 extra per year relies on ignorance on the part of users. If you access the internet via VPN, you don't need to opt out, but AT&T gets nothing but useless garbage for tracking and scanning results. E.g: privateinternetacccess.com is $40/year. --- Ron (user telnom.for.plume in domain antichef.com) ***** Moderator's Note ***** Better the frying pan we know than the fire we don't? Bill Horne Moderator |
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