There was also the case where Verizon got busted and fined (pre-telecom-leadership FCC) for adding tracking cookies to customer traffic.
These aren't even ad-supported free services. Customers already paid for services and the providers are double-dipping by also injecting ads or tracking. I haven't verified it, but I suspect ATT fiber is doing the same thing. Their original fiber offering even had a discount if you knowingly let them spy on your traffic. And they block service unless you use their terrible router, which does who-knows-what. (It has a hardware encryption key which is required for their custom version of 802.1X network authentication. So non-ATT routers cannot even connect to the network.)
Yeah, this stuff really irritates me.
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There was also the case where Verizon got busted and fined (pre-telecom-leadership FCC) for adding tracking cookies to customer traffic.
These aren't even ad-supported free services. Customers already paid for services and the providers are double-dipping by also injecting ads or tracking. I haven't verified it, but I suspect ATT fiber is doing the same thing. Their original fiber offering even had a discount if you knowingly let them spy on your traffic. And they block service unless you use their terrible router, which does who-knows-what. (It has a hardware encryption key which is required for their custom version of 802.1X network authentication. So non-ATT routers cannot even connect to the network.)
Yeah, this stuff really irritates me.