AT&T is charging an extra $29/month to opt out of “tracking information”
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AT&T is charging an extra $29/month to opt out of “tracking information”
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#2Its important to note that this is as much a telecom vs Google issue, as it is a privacy issue.
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#3vpn?
Re: AT&T is charging an extra $29/month to opt out of “tracking information”
#4Does this somehow conflict with the DCMA safe harbor provisions? I thought the deal was that they weren't responsible for the things done on their network as long as they don't know about it.
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#5I hate the precedent of having to opt-out of targeted advertising, but I hate even more that I can't pay Google (or Facebook, etc), any amount of money to do so.
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#6Fortunately, you can host your own VPN server on DigitalOcean for $5/month. Heck, you could probably even get away with one of atlantic.net's $1/month servers.
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#7This is how cynical I've become about this kind of stuff, I see it as a small victory that AT&T admits they're doing it.
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#8Re: AT&T is charging an extra $29/month to opt out of “tracking information”
#9I hate the precedent of having to opt-out of targeted advertising, but I hate even more that I can't pay Google (or Facebook, etc), any amount of money to do so.
Does Google track pages visited by their fibre subscribers?
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#10I hate the precedent of having to opt-out of targeted advertising, but I hate even more that I can't pay Google (or Facebook, etc), any amount of money to do so.
Does Google track pages visited by their fibre subscribers?
I don't think there is any doubt that the synergy with a Google services, which do track, is part of the basic business proposition of Fiber for Google. Given that, exactly where the tracking happens is an implementation detail. The end result is that for most customers, the $70 price point is subsidized by tracking.