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> For instance, absolutely nobody has every said "I want to share my internet connection with my strangers". I imagine that my experience in France is a little
by docdeek 6y ago
> For instance, absolutely nobody has every said "I want to share my internet connection with my strangers".
I imagine that my experience in France is a little different to the US (no caps on home internet) but I share my home WiFi with strangers as I am incentivized to do so by the ISP.
The ISP is also a cell phone service provider (I use them for both) and if you agree to share your home WiFi with their other customers, you get access to those other people sharing their home WiFi, too. It basically means that for the 'cost' of sharing a part of my home internet with a passing stranger, I can get a WiFi connection in most any built up area from someone else sharing. As the person using my WiFi also has to be a customer of the ISP for WiFi and sharing it, too, the only sharing use case is when you are looking for something faster than 4G on your cell phone and you connect securely to a fellow ISP customer's WiFi.
- waihtis 6y agoSee, here there's a clear win-win with assumedly opt-in. I can see neither in the Amazon scenario.