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The good news is that Verizon has all these grand plans to intercept your browsing data and use it to target ads, but they can't even implement the most rudimen
by jrockway 5y ago
The good news is that Verizon has all these grand plans to intercept your browsing data and use it to target ads, but they can't even implement the most rudimentary spam protection on SMS, so I don't have high hopes that they're going to make any money by spying on everyone.
One could argue that since the more messages you receive, they more you pay, they have no incentive to reduce spam; whereas with ad tracking, as long as they find some advertiser willing to pay 100 million dollars for a 1% increase on click throughs on their overpriced toothpaste, they'll have a financial incentive to do a good job. So maybe we're actually really screwed.
Sad that a cell phone company can't be just a cell phone company. They were pretty good at that.
- InCityDreams 5y ago"One could argue that since the more messages you receive, they more you pay,..." Laughs in €uropean. Btw €5.99 unlimited calls, unlimited texts (that the receiver doesnt pay for [maybe my US friends do....must check] 100Gb a month. Had the same tel.no for nearly 20 years, several different operators. My US friends are very jealous (though at least one has unlimited EU calls and texts).
- thatguy0900 5y agoPretty much everyone in the US has unlimited calls and texts. You have to go looking for obscure senior citizen plans meant to be emergency phones for anything that is charged by the text and minute. Our service costs way more than 6€ though
- darknavi 5y agoYeah, I'd say at the big three (four?) it's normally "unlimited everything for ~45€/mo". We get North American roaming but T-mo is the only one that does seamless international besides Google Fi.