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Google gets web history via Google DNS, and they're the advertiser. So, I don't know that we really care about ISPs collecting and selling similar data. Probabl
by cmurf 10y ago
Google gets web history via Google DNS, and they're the advertiser. So, I don't know that we really care about ISPs collecting and selling similar data. Probably the distinction is we trust Google more than Comcast with the handling of this data, and possibly to what degree we as individuals are abstracted from aggregated data, compared to what Comcast is capable of collecting.
If the trust is low enough to prompt paying more money to Comcast for a non-tracking tier of service, why trust that Comcast is in fact not tracking their non-tracking tier anyway? Why not just pay for VPN service? Or maybe some combination of OpenDNS's DNSCrypt plus HTTPS is sufficient?
- medmunds 10y agoI think the distinction is Google has specifically said they won't correlate Google Public DNS data for targeting advertising [1], while Comcast is specifically saying that's exactly what they do want the option to do. If you don't trust either company, that distinction won't matter. But if you take their statements at face value, there is a difference. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Public_DNS#Privacy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Public_DNS#Privacy