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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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What VPN do you use to hide traffic from your ISP? (upload.wikimedia.org)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is customer protection so weak in the US that ISPs are free to spy on their customers using aforementioned techniques?

ISPs not only sell cell location data to bounty hunters/anyone who can fork over money, they also sell ad targeting information about their customer. They have also injected Javascript into pages (selling new modems) and add(ed) unique headers to HTTP traffic so websites could identify individual users despite their best attempts.

Not all of them do all of this crap, but this shit is one of the reasons Mozilla enabled DoH in the USA by default. It also helped the push for getting HTTPS everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

They have also injected Javascript into pages (selling new modems) and add(ed) unique headers to HTTP traffic so websites could identify individual users despite their best attempts.

This must have been pre-HTTPS since you'd need to MitM the SSL certificate for that to work