I wonder if they are getting their definition of privacy from the same place they get their definition of unlimited?
https://old.reddit.com/r/adops/comments/8tqezg/att_to_acquir...
https://old.reddit.com/r/adops/comments/8t2z0f/atts_brian_le...
They know who you are. They know everywhere you go. And they are happy to spread what they know about you around.
Is this something new? What was the flow? Do you have both AT&T internet + TV as well?
https://www.fiercecable.com/cable/tv-everywhere-starts-up-46...
I bought my dad a Roku TV for his birthday and the idea of having to go to website, login with his cable companies userid and password and then use the one time code displayed on his TV,confuses him to no end.
Good idea! The only way this could fail is if some huge advertising company had created their own browser and became dominant on the market. We would be so screwed! XD
Allegedly they're buying it to integrate into their TV offerings. There's a huge market there that's relatively untapped at the moment compared to Display so it makes some sense.
Part of me is terrified that someone who has all my details just bought a firm that can trad on them. (It’s economic magic though - as if the Federal Reserve bought a hedge fund)
But part of me says that when one dinosaur buys another, the end result is rarely Excellence. I suspect that this will wind up a disaster and write-off.
My advice: buy an unlocked Android phone. Throw DNS66 on it to block in app ads. Use browsers that support ublock origin, I advise Fennec which is Firefox for Android stripped of the Mozilla crap.
You are not a powerless victim, you have agency.
In general antitrust is more about preventing Coke from buying Pepsi than Coke buying It’s bottlers or Kroger. The idea was vertical integration isn’t as harmful on consumer prices as horizontal.
I think in this case it’s more about something like GDPR.
[0] https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/sjres34/summary
You're correct that the rules never went into effect, but they also had no reason to invest in ad tech with the (increasingly probable) regulation looming in the future.
And, with the current FCC, I expect more forced "channeling" of customers/users into said integration.
I wrote Congress regarding net neutrality. I got one response -- and that not from my own representatives. And, despite my pointing this behavior out in my original letter, it just continued to shill the ATT, Comcast, Verizon, et al. talking points.
Right now, at home, on the connection Comcast just raised the monthly cost of by circa 30% since the beginning of this year, I'm using a VPN to keep their nose (and JS injection) out of my business.
I reiterate: We need a competing physical layer. One that we keep from getting likewise co-opted.
All the out of the box VPNs I've found have some shortcomings, either being horribly insecure (PPTP, seriously?), overpriced, often abused (which means their entire subnet is banned by pretty much everything) and the providers sometimes seem shady (I want a VPN to escape cancer aka ads, not the government - in this case I'd actually prefer something akin to an ISP complying with local laws versus a "bulletproof" one who could very well be a fly-by-night operation up to no good).
;-)
