That’s uncommon in most of the country but it also misses the point: it’s about access. Comcast and Verizon tried to double-charge Netflix for access to their c

That’s uncommon in most of the country but it also misses the point: it’s about access. Comcast and Verizon tried to double-charge Netflix for access to their customers and that instinct needs to be blocked because otherwise every MBA looking to juice their quarterly numbers is going to look for opportunities to do it. There’s also a privacy angle: ISPs used to mine search data and even inject tracking cookies into HTTP traffic. That’s less of an issue now with HTTPS so widely used but they still mine TLS host names and would no doubt do anything else which advertisers will pay for as long as it’s legal.