Hugo, That's a great find! I note in the article:
"Not only is the price of the premier service (with ads) only $70 a month, but it comes with a waiver of equipment, installation, and activation fees. The standard service without ads is $99 a month..." So that's $29 a month to let AT&T track your Web browsing, but only for targeting ads. ATT promises "And we won’t sell your personal information to anyone, for any reason." I would guess that the ability to sell that data would be worth several times the $29/month, so it's conceivable that a provider could offer $10/mo Gig Internet in exchange for browsing history. But nobody does. Because they think they can steal it. I think this pretty well demonstrates the greed of the big-ISP executives who lobbied for today's legislative atrocity, which lets them rob customers of browsing history that even AT&T execs acknowledge users own. -mel beckman On Mar 28, 2017, at 5:56 PM, Hugo Slabbert <h...@slabnet.com<mailto:h...@slabnet.com>> wrote: Now, if ISPs want to PURCHASE browser data from customers directly, I'm sure they'll get some takers. But that strategy has never appeared in any business plan I've seen. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/att-offers-gigabit-internet-discount-in-exchange-for-your-web-history/ ? -- Hugo Slabbert | email, xmpp/jabber: h...@slabnet.com<mailto:h...@slabnet.com> pgp key: B178313E | also on Signal
