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AT&T GigaPower Plans to Charge Extra Per Month Again if you Want Privacy, No Ads

posted by Fnord666 on Monday July 10 2017, @01:12AM   
from the Lily-Tomlin dept.

martyb writes:

Privacy... when it comes to AT&T, it may once again come at a cost:

AT&T plans to reinstate their GigaPower pay-for-privacy scheme, as revealed by AT&T VP Robert Quinn in a recent interview with C-SPAN. In 2014, AT&T started offering GigaPower 300 Mbps fiber internet in cities around the United States. Users signing up had the option of paying $29 more per month to guarantee that AT&T doesn't snoop on your internet traffic and serve you advertisements and offers from their MITM position on your internet. Yes, they actually put a price on privacy and it's coming back. GigaOM discovered that $29 a month ($348 per year) isn't even the real price of buying your privacy back from AT&T – the total bill could run up to $800 per year.

How well would a VPN protect you from this, and at what cost in [in]convenience?

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• Re:Get all your Training Videos on YouTube Re:Get all your Training Videos on YouTube (Score: 2, Disagree) by frojack on Monday July 10 2017, @03:30AM (1 child)

  by frojack (1554) on Monday July 10 2017, @03:30AM (#537016) Journal

  Just use the best Adblock-er you can find. Where there is no money to be made there is no reason to carry on with all the snooping.

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• Re:Get all your Training Videos on YouTube (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 10 2017, @05:09PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 10 2017, @05:09PM (#537178)

  You quoted Forbes. What ad blocker do you use?

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