What you have read is propaganda. ISPs have never been allowed to do what they are about to do. Between the move to common carrier until the new privacy rule wa

What you have read is propaganda. ISPs have never been allowed to do what they are about to do. Between the move to common carrier until the new privacy rule was to go into effect ISPs could theoretically have started new data selling programs but they had not because of the legal uncertainty and they knew the new rules were coming. As usual some of the best technical reporting on the issue is at ars https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/how-isps-can-sell-your-web-history-and-how-to-stop-them/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/how-i...