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annnnd
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Beware of geeks bearing gifts
What, your ISP already mines data about you and sells it? If I knew that about mine I would leave it ASAP.
axelfreeman
on Aug 21, 2013
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They sell statistic data and have a "DNS failed" page with there "search engine". They also sell my phonenumber if i don't opt-out.
lucb1e
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Can you back that up, or at least name that ISP?
GFischer
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Good luck if it's a state monopoly (mine is). Between bad internet and no internet, I chose bad internet.
wavefunction
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It doesn't have to be that way. It may be that way at the moment but the internet was originally built to be fault-tolerant and decentralized, and we can provide that alternative to the corporate dominated net.
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