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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday May 27 2017, @06:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the keep-your-ads-out-of-my-streams dept.

In the wake of this spring's Senate ruling nixing FCC privacy regulations imposed on ISPs, you may be (even more) worried about how your data is used, misused, and abused. There have been a lot of opinions on this topic since, ranging from "the sky is falling" to "move along, citizen, nothing to see here." The fact is, ISPs tend to be pretty unscrupulous, sometimes even ruthless, about how they gather and use their customers' data. You may not be sure how it's a problem if your ISP gives advertisers more info to serve ads you'd like to see—but what about when your ISP literally edits your HTTP traffic, inserting more ads and possibly breaking webpages?

With a Congress that has demonstrated its lack of interest in protecting you from your ISP, and ISPs that have repeatedly demonstrated a "whatever-we-can-get-away-with" attitude toward customers' data privacy and integrity, it may be time to look into how to get your data out from under your ISP's prying eyes and grubby fingers intact. To do that, you'll need a VPN.

Source: Ars Technica


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by art guerrilla on Saturday May 27 2017, @06:54PM

    by art guerrilla (3082) on Saturday May 27 2017, @06:54PM (#516499)

    um, i was going to say something about this, but i was distracted by boobies...
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    oh, yeah, to uneducated *me*, ALL these schemes of hiding yourself with various tricked out browsers, encrypted emails, etc, etc, has one fatal flaw which you allude to: when only .0000001 to .01% of the users are using these tools, that AUTOMATICALLY puts you in a 'suspect' category (in the eyes of Empire), such that you are simply putting a big red flag on all your inertnet activities when you use these tools/techniques, REGARDLESS of whether they are 'cracked' or compromised, MERELY the factoid you are using these tools/techniques puts you in the crosshairs of the all-seeing eye of sauron...
    .
    the 'solution' isn't to fool sauron, the solution is to drop the ring of power in the chasm at mt doom...

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