T-Mobile to share customers' data with advertisers unless they opt out

Re:T-Mobile to share customers' data with advertisers unless... by Cu3PO42 on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @02:49AM (#26408873)

It does do another thing: it gives you access to a better deal, generally speaking. But I'm also considering biting that bullet.

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Re:T-Mobile to share customers' data with advertisers unless... by hansel_der on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @03:24AM (#26409069)

fwiw the "better deals" build their value proposition on buying a new phone every two years and smuggle the price of the phone into your tax deductibles. generally the deals are mid- to high-tier priced but have good overall value if you want video on the go and are complicit with beeing a part in the hardware churn industry.

on the other side you get low-end deals w/o contract for <100euro per year (call/sms flatrate plus some data) if you bring your own phone.

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Re:T-Mobile to share customers' data with advertisers unless... by Cu3PO42 on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @04:54AM (#26409608)

Phone purchases outside of a contract are also partially tax deductible if used for your job in Germany. And while many deals are attractive only if you buy a device, not all of them are. Right now I could get a 24 month contract from Vodafone for an average price of 12 EUR/month with 20GB of mobile data.

On the other hand, Lidl Connect (which uses Vodafone's network) charges 12.99 EUR/4 weeks for 6GB of data w/o contract. If you know of any non-contract options that offer significantly better value, please do let me know.

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Re:T-Mobile to share customers' data with advertisers unless... by rorykoehler on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @07:02AM (#26410348)

It really depends how you use your data but I never use more than the 10gb that I pay for so having more data isn’t an attraction. I also buy a new (to me) second hand iPhone every 2 years and the phones are perfectly good.

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Re:T-Mobile to share customers' data with advertisers unless... by distances on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @04:44PM (#26416674)

WinSIM is 7.99€/6GB, PremiumSIM 8.99€/6GB, both with month-to-month contracts. Not sure which networks though.

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Re:T-Mobile to share customers' data with advertisers unless... by hansel_der on Thursday March 11, 2021 @02:28PM (#26427958)

winsim is drillisch, which is just about starting its own network, mostly resells telefonica like most cheap options (incl. premiumsim).

idk but everytime i call someone and the call quality is abysmal, that person is on telefonica network.

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Re:T-Mobile to share customers' data with advertisers unless... by distances on Friday March 12, 2021 @05:23AM (#26434100)

I've been happy with Drillisch, but to be fair I call very rarely and even then it's a Telegram/WhatsApp call.

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Re:T-Mobile to share customers' data with advertisers unless... by hansel_der on Thursday March 11, 2021 @02:31PM (#26427997)

yea, that vodafone deal sounds good value if you need the data.

guess im an outlier because i rarely use more than a few hundred MB a month, so even 12e/mon is "too damn high".

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Re:T-Mobile to share customers' data with advertisers unless... by Cu3PO42 on Friday March 12, 2021 @04:27AM (#26433762)

That's fair. I don't always need that much data, but I need it often enough that it's worth having it and not having to worry about it, e.g. when visiting family who don't have internet at home, just working outside or traveling.

I've also been in the situation of not having non-mobile internet at home and I had to deal with insufficient data caps for years, so I may also be biased towards avoiding that in the future.

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