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Something that is not mentioned often is the combined effect of losing net neutrality and the recent decision to let the ISPs sell your advertising data. It's
by treebeard901 9y ago
Something that is not mentioned often is the combined effect of losing net neutrality and the recent decision to let the ISPs sell your advertising data.
It's a two pronged attack on the internet.
The ISPs data collection is going to be more valuable than Facebook or Google simply because they have everything and most importantly the ISPs can verify physical identities.
So internet ad revenue is being attacked from one angle and then they are extorting money for packet delivery on the other.
- mtgx 9y agoAnother reason for all web developers to encrypt their websites.
- losteric 9y agoThat helps, but not entirely. The metadata of which sites you're visiting is still valuable advertising information - especially when browsing through a phone (geolocation).
- tomaskafka 9y agoThis doesn't help - just a set of domains (and page count + times of connection) you connected to last month is a very precise and valuable identifier of who you are and what your interests are.
- rsync 9y ago"It's a two pronged attack on the internet. The ISPs data collection is going to be more valuable than Facebook or Google simply because they have everything and most importantly the ISPs can verify physical identities." Third prong: lawmakers advocating "closing the VPN loophole". Because terrorism.
- gkya 9y agoWould it be possible to connect to Internet w/o ISPs?