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How is anyone in SV going to eat if private corporations can't track our every move? I mean, not everyone takes cab rides or rents private homes when they trav

How is anyone in SV going to eat if private corporations can't track our every move? I mean, not everyone takes cab rides or rents private homes when they travel, but almost everyone uses the internet for something. And those people need to be tracked, or there's no money to be made.

hanshan 8y ago
"The internet would not exist without advertising"
- s_kilk 8y ago
  Utterly wrong. The Internet wouldn't exist without gigantic state funding. The early Internet was completely free of commercial influence.
  - hanshan 8y ago
    In case you didn't realize, my comment and the parent's comment are satirical.
walrus01 8y ago
> How is anyone in SV going to eat if private corporations can't track our every move? I work for an ISP and we do not track our customers. At all. We bill them and they receive a reliable service that performs as advertised. Maybe we could go back to the oldschool model of actually selling a product or service, delivering it to the customer, and keeping the customer happy?
- jefurii 8y ago
  Which ISP is this? (interested)
  - pubutil 8y ago
    I’m not walrus01 but I know of a few ISPs in the Bay Area that put an emphasis on net neutrality and users’ privacy, on top of running a good service: Wave on the SF/Daly City side, and Sonic’s running fiber in the East Bay. Both have impressed me, especially Sonic which provides their own VPN and runs a public wiki that rivals my company’s internal IT wiki. I’ve also heard good things about LMI but I have no personal experience with them.
  - walrus01 8y ago
    I'd rather not mix my sometimes controversial comments on HN with work - everything I write here is very much not in my "official" capacity... But I can say it's west coast, small to medium sized, clueful, and doesn't suck.