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Re:Interview with DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg by shmerl on Monday May 27, 2019 @02:10PM (#20024110)
Discounting Internet by axing privacy is a nasty idea. Privacy should be available by default without any added price tags.
Re:Interview with DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg by lastpingstandin on Monday May 27, 2019 @05:22PM (#20025346)
This isn't some moral position, it's an economic one.

ISP's make money with the data they gather. Once you remove that as a revenue stream, it'll naturally increase the prices those companies are willing to charge.

Re:Interview with DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg by shmerl on Monday May 27, 2019 @05:25PM (#20025370)
They make more than enough money by providing the Internet service. They should have nothing to do with your data. Especially considering, how easily they can spy on you. It's like your post office delivery would charge you more, if they'll not sniff through your mail. This thing shouldn't even come up as a "feature", it should be the always enabled default.
Re:Interview with DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg by jslabovitz on Monday May 27, 2019 @06:13PM (#20025638)
The USPS likely would charge you more, if they weren't already in the business of selling both address lists and access (carrier route deliveries of bulk mail). So they might not be sniffing your mail, but from what it seems the postal service needs your data to survive.
Re:Interview with DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg by friendlybus on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @01:46AM (#20027536)
That's why it should be a government service. No more tracking by private companies reselling your data to everyone and their dog. No more foreign governments selling you crazy ads.
Re:Interview with DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg by shmerl on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @02:29AM (#20027686)
It's not like government can't abuse privacy all the same.
Re:Interview with DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg by jvsg on Monday May 27, 2019 @10:59PM (#20026875)
> They make more than enough money by providing the Internet service

So you are going to decide whether they are making enough money? Don't like tracking? Switch over to a privacy respecting ISP.

Re:Interview with DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg by shmerl on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @12:09AM (#20027148)
It's obvious greed. There is no need to violate people's privacy for the ISP. Which you yourself point out. They don't do it out of need, but because they can.
Re:Interview with DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg by dmitriid on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @02:54AM (#20027809)
> Switch over to a privacy respecting ISP.

As if this was a readily available option.