Don't worry, I'm not promoting DirectTV Now because it sucks balls. I have ad blocking at the router level at home and DirectTV basically won't work because of it. Even when it does work the picture quality is awful, you can't easily skip commercials, changing channels is painfully slow. And there are ads everywhere.

But, my main point is that a few weeks after getting it, I get a mailer from Charter asking me why would I want to pay for channel bundles (I get only internet from Charter)... the only way that mailer makes sense is if they were watching my traffic and seeing that I'm a subscriber to a channel package from their competitor. (I've never gotten a similar mailing and it doesn't make sense absent spying, otherwise they're kind of arguing against their own main cable service.)

It really made me want to get VPN setup whole-house.