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