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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: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday May 28 2017, @01:01PM (1 child)

    by Gaaark (41) on Sunday May 28 2017, @01:01PM (#516727) Journal

    What about a SN VPN?

    Is the cost prohibitive? How much would monthly/yearly cost?

    Does anyone have experience with this?

    I use PIA, but don't know them from Jack Off, .....

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday May 28 2017, @01:25PM

    We've talked about it but came to the conclusion that we didn't want the feds coming to us with a blanket warrant and getting access to all of what little information we do store; website and vpn both. Doing it as a separately incorporated project we haven't really looked into yet.

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