I wonder if they are getting their definition of privacy from the same place they get their definition of unlimited?
https://old.reddit.com/r/adops/comments/8tqezg/att_to_acquir...
https://old.reddit.com/r/adops/comments/8t2z0f/atts_brian_le...
They know who you are. They know everywhere you go. And they are happy to spread what they know about you around.
Is this something new? What was the flow? Do you have both AT&T internet + TV as well?
https://www.fiercecable.com/cable/tv-everywhere-starts-up-46...
I bought my dad a Roku TV for his birthday and the idea of having to go to website, login with his cable companies userid and password and then use the one time code displayed on his TV,confuses him to no end.
Good idea! The only way this could fail is if some huge advertising company had created their own browser and became dominant on the market. We would be so screwed! XD
Allegedly they're buying it to integrate into their TV offerings. There's a huge market there that's relatively untapped at the moment compared to Display so it makes some sense.
Part of me is terrified that someone who has all my details just bought a firm that can trad on them. (It’s economic magic though - as if the Federal Reserve bought a hedge fund)
But part of me says that when one dinosaur buys another, the end result is rarely Excellence. I suspect that this will wind up a disaster and write-off.
My advice: buy an unlocked Android phone. Throw DNS66 on it to block in app ads. Use browsers that support ublock origin, I advise Fennec which is Firefox for Android stripped of the Mozilla crap.
You are not a powerless victim, you have agency.
In general antitrust is more about preventing Coke from buying Pepsi than Coke buying It’s bottlers or Kroger. The idea was vertical integration isn’t as harmful on consumer prices as horizontal.
I think in this case it’s more about something like GDPR.
[0] https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/sjres34/summary
You're correct that the rules never went into effect, but they also had no reason to invest in ad tech with the (increasingly probable) regulation looming in the future.
And, with the current FCC, I expect more forced "channeling" of customers/users into said integration.
I wrote Congress regarding net neutrality. I got one response -- and that not from my own representatives. And, despite my pointing this behavior out in my original letter, it just continued to shill the ATT, Comcast, Verizon, et al. talking points.
Right now, at home, on the connection Comcast just raised the monthly cost of by circa 30% since the beginning of this year, I'm using a VPN to keep their nose (and JS injection) out of my business.
I reiterate: We need a competing physical layer. One that we keep from getting likewise co-opted.
All the out of the box VPNs I've found have some shortcomings, either being horribly insecure (PPTP, seriously?), overpriced, often abused (which means their entire subnet is banned by pretty much everything) and the providers sometimes seem shady (I want a VPN to escape cancer aka ads, not the government - in this case I'd actually prefer something akin to an ISP complying with local laws versus a "bulletproof" one who could very well be a fly-by-night operation up to no good).
I'd love to hear your experience.
;-)
But sure, GDPR works just as well; even better perhaps. Although GOOD LUCK getting something like that to pass through US legislature. Especially when the legislative has already allowed ISPs to freely trade in consumer traffic (meta)data. You can find a preliminary coverage here https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/28/house-vote-sj-34-isp-regul...
But indeed, I do agree that a GDPR-clone is overdue in the US. While I hope it comes to fruition, I also hope it isn’t hopelessly bastardized and rendered toothless by the lobbyist lot.
Popular cloud hosts with a freemium option are a bad idea for personal vpn.
1. Clicking on a link now takes you to the comments page, instead of the destination. To get to the destination, you need to hunt down the "direct" link. This is a shitty pattern.
2. The spacing is all weird. I just don't like the design aestheticially. But it might just be "it's different and therefore bad".
3. A lot of features aren't yet implemented on the new platform. (Crossposting, at least.)
4. Some content that I want available immediately (my multis) are loaded asynchronously, forcing me to wait before I can actually go to where I want.
5. Infinite scroll can fuck off and die in a fire. It's less of an issue on reddit, where bookmarking a given page doesn't really make sense anyway, but in principle I want my content paginated so I can have a sense of how much I've seen so far.
6. Collapsing threads is now slightly more annoying than it was, although it might be another case of "new and different therefore bad".
Some of these aren't really relevant to a link to a specific thread from outside reddit.
Also the design takes up lots of screen real-estate with cutesy useless features.
Compare the traditional UI: http://tinyimg.io/i/nBQo9uw.png
with the ugly lightboxed replacement: http://tinyimg.io/i/rOS8oVI.png
Previously, I could navigate to a subreddit, relatively quickly glance at whether anything was new, without being distracted by autoloading images and videos. Now reddit looks more like ebaumsworld 10 years ago.
Design wise I’d prefer it focus on community > consumption. Card interfaces with expanded media are very consumption oriented.
(I also run a site-specific browsers via Chrome to isolate my Gmail login and keep Google from knowing who I am, I have no Facebook login, etc. I'm not serious enough to run a VPN or Tor, and my setup isn't enough to guard against browser fingerprinting, but I'm reasonably paranoid.)
Personally it's handy as my ISP lets me watch tv on any device on my home network. They did it badly because it breaks if I change the SSID.
But you're not truly paranoid unless you're using tor or a vpn to get away from your ISP's network. Your efforts mostly are an annoyance to yourself but no impediment to other.
