Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance risk than Facebook

Re:Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance ris... by delbel on Friday April 06, 2018 @09:15PM (#16778864)

There was an ISP called NetZero that used this business model to provide free dial up and I think later on, free DSL in the 2000s. So this isn't a new concept, except what everyone is saying they (the ISPs) are now doing it without any kind of exchange of value apparently.

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Re:Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance ris... by bobwaycott on Saturday April 07, 2018 @12:39AM (#16779386)

Oh, man, I remember NetZero. Hadn’t thought about them in ages. There was another similar company called Juno, iirc. I almost miss the days of free dialup services—where I explicitly chose to see ads in exchange for a free service, and the company was upfront that this was the exchange being performed.

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Re:Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance ris... by paulie_a on Saturday April 07, 2018 @06:37AM (#16780191)

I used both of those services and it is really amazing that the quality of ads from Google and Facebook 16+ years later is pretty much the same as NetZero/juno

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