This article reads to me like a propaganda piece, employing USSR-style 'what-aboutism' argument [1].
ISPs 'could be worse' than Facebook already is, the article argues.
>"Your internet provider doesn’t just know what you do on Facebook – it sees all the sites you visit and how much time you spend there. Your provider can see where you shop, what you watch on TV,
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But, really, a consumer has a choice of VPN to protect his/her traffic, and demarry it from their identity. This is not an option when a user has to login to use features within Facebook or Google+, or Youtube.
What I think is happening, is that Ad-revenue based service providers (eg most CA-based 'thought-leaders') are deathly afraid of consumers choosing VPN.
I think, actually, ISPs should encourage consumers to use VPN, this way ISPs will still get paid their 'utility' value,
but the 'digital footprint collection, and then Ad-selling business companies, would have to rethink their business models...
Which is why, the content-providers propaganda machine was so intensive against repeal of 'net-neutrality' (which was, essentially, a form of business-net-privilege for Ad-selling content providers).
ISPs 'could be worse' than Facebook already is, the article argues.
>"Your internet provider doesn’t just know what you do on Facebook – it sees all the sites you visit and how much time you spend there. Your provider can see where you shop, what you watch on TV, <"
But, really, a consumer has a choice of VPN to protect his/her traffic, and demarry it from their identity. This is not an option when a user has to login to use features within Facebook or Google+, or Youtube.
What I think is happening, is that Ad-revenue based service providers (eg most CA-based 'thought-leaders') are deathly afraid of consumers choosing VPN.
I think, actually, ISPs should encourage consumers to use VPN, this way ISPs will still get paid their 'utility' value, but the 'digital footprint collection, and then Ad-selling business companies, would have to rethink their business models...
Which is why, the content-providers propaganda machine was so intensive against repeal of 'net-neutrality' (which was, essentially, a form of business-net-privilege for Ad-selling content providers).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism