Charging MORE for Privacy is Better! (Says Comcast)

I knew RT was selling all my data. Thanks for the confirmation Gus.

Sadly, this is probably the future. So many people in this generation have the mentality that, "if I don't do anything wrong, I have no reason to hide or have privacy." Unfortunately, I'm sure in the next 20-30 years you'll have to pay a pretty decent fee to opt-out of selling your info.

Cuntcast, at its finest.

Wow, Ashley really nailed the "wat" line

Why can someme hit them with an anti trust lawsuit and fragment them?

I have two questions in regards to this:

One- Wasn't the point of the Net Neutrality thing that internet access is a utility and should be treated as such?

Two- Is there anything restricting water/electric/telephone companies from selling the information on individual household usage (such as water/electric usage to Kenmore or Sears for advertisements on lower usage appliances)?

It very easy to see how much of my data is sold because I use this site all the time and any other website I use just has Rooster Teeth ads on them.

SITREP: Comcast is still the devil...

Services already offer this type of thing already. Hulu, Youtube, Netflix (in a way), Crunchyroll, Amazon (with prime services again in a way), even Rooster Teeth, by offering ad-free services for a premium price. This is exactly what AT&T is supposedly doing and this is what Comcast wants to do as well to keep their promo pricing down. Is it shitty? of course it is, but if people don't want ads directed at them, they'll either pay for the premium service or get an ad block, but either way the non-sensitive data is still being collected and sent to ad targeting services. As long as my sensitive data still remains to be kept private and not sold, I really don't care if they take my browsing history and search terms to direct ads at me. If they want to suggest weird fetish porn I'm obsessed with, what clothes sites i normally go to that have sales, and whatever else at me, I say have at it. I have ad block for a reason. Companies are going to make money in whatever way possible. If a definite ad free internet is their way of doing so, then those people who want to buy because they're paranoid of their non-sensitive data being sold to ad targeting services are the people they are interested in.

No no no, ya got it all wrong.
They're not charging for privacy, they're lowering rates for less privacy.
There's totally a difference

/s

I'm not surprised. There is to be money to be made in selling people's information and companies love making money.

Image searches (on Google) for Comcast are still funny.