Which ISP will be the one to guarantee it will never sell

Damn. That's actually really smart. Unless our personal data is crazy valuable or there is a cartel some company should do this

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Or better yet, give the option to opt out. But if you opt in, you get a discount on your service.

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They've already experimented with this - LINK

Now that their lobbying efforts have been successful, though, they get to charge you whatever they want while giving you no option to opt out of their data collection.

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Which ISP will be the one to guarantee it will never sell

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Probably local government owned ISPs. Like the one in Lafayette.

Get a VPN.. private internet access is like $30 a year

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Comcast has begun serving Comcast ads to devices connected to one of its 3.5 million publicly accessible Wi-Fi hotspots across the US. Comcast's decision to inject data into websites raises security concerns and arguably cuts to the core of the ongoing net neutrality debate.

A Comcast spokesman told Ars the program began months ago.One facet of it is designed to alert consumers that they are connected to Comcast's Xfinity service. Other ads remind Web surfers to download Xfinity apps, Comcast spokesman Charlie Douglas told Ars in telephone interviews.

The advertisements may appear about every seven minutes or so, he said, and they last for just seconds before trailing away. Douglas said the advertising campaign only applies to Xfinity's publicly available Wi-Fi hot spots that dot the landscape. Comcast customers connected to their own Xfinity Wi-Fi routers when they're at home are not affected, he said.

"We think it's a courtesy, and it helps address some concerns that people might not be absolutely sure they're on a hotspot from Comcast," Douglas said.


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Enlarge / A snippet from a JavaScript file Comcast injected into an Internet surfer's visit to the site Mediagazer.)

Ryan Singel
The Comcast advertising campaign came to Ars' attention after Ryan Singel, the co-founder of startup Contextly, was reading Mediagazer at a café in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco on Labor Day.

A small red advertisement saying "XFINITY WiFi Peppy" scooted across the bottom of the Mediagazer page and disappeared into the ether. It happened a few times, he said. Singel took screen shots of the advertisement loading and as it appeared on his screen. He captured some code, too.

"When a user requests to view a page, Comcast injects its JavaScript into the packets being returned by the real server," Singel said during an instant-message chat.

Singel's suspicions were correct that Mediagazer didn't place the ad there, and Mediagazer is none too happy about it. "Indeed, they were not ours," Gabe Rivera, who runs Mediagazer and Techmeme, said in an e-mail. In another e-mail, he said, "someone else is inserting them in a sneaky way."

There wasn't a precedent before Wheeler came into the FCC. Wheeler is the only reason that this wasn't passed before now. It probably would've passed when Obama was still in office. Wheeler was the key for Net Neutrality. Now the biggest opponent to NN is in Wheeler's place. Hes also in the pocket of Comcast. So they have all of our data, and now they're going to be able to make huge profit off of it. They were doing it before but now its huge. and legal...

No its not. Small ISPs are the only hope we have now of keeping our data private. But when FCC makes it legal for ATT to sue the shite out of them until they don't have money, we wont have those ISPs.

Exactly, now the FCC is rolling back more regulations every day. Its going to get to the point wherever you live, there will be at most 3 choices. But no one here seemed to take that into account when they voted. And Im not talking about Trump.

This is literally a thread talking about a regulation that got rolled back in favor of big Internet.

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Which ISP will be the one to guarantee it will never sell...your history to anyone ever?

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I haven't read the EULA for any of the browsers that I use, but I'd be surprised if Google isn't tracking Chrome users or some of the other large browser providers.

Paying cash for a laptop at a flea market with no security cameras and using TAILS on public wifi is about as anonymous as anyone can expect to get nowadays. True internet anonymity is beyond the scope of the average joe.