I get spammed by them all the time but have so far resisted and stayed with my crappy, slow, and expensive ADSL provider out of principle. But the ADSL provider just raised prices on me AGAIN and it’s ridiculous.
What do I do? Is Google Fiber as invasive as other Google stuff? What if I just use it to tunnel a VPN to a non-Google endpoint?
This is sure annoying. It occurs to me that Comcrap might be available here as an alternative, but that must be as evil as Google. At least the ADSL company is reasonable about privacy, as such companies go.
Thanks for any thoughts.
“they”
Yes, they. The three ISPs he has to choose from. Context. He’s not going to meaningfully opt out from dealing with the scale of the services Google provides online by choosing slower internet. We have to encrypt our traffic, secure our browsers and devices. And even then they will passively circumvent many of our efforts not to scrutinized.
In the end privacy is for me a way of judging the quality of my connection. But I do need a quantity of that connection, and if I’m going to shield my traffic obsessively anyways I’d pick Google Fiber.
We’re picking between three companies that all collaborate with whatever law enforcement or spy agency comes knocking or visiting.