Comment Bull Crap (Score 4, Interesting) 56
One day after Motherboard posted the material reportedly prepared by Comcast, the cable provider touted its privacy policies in a blog post. "Where you go on the Internet is your business, not ours," McMeley wrote. "As your Internet Service Provider, we do not track the websites you visit or apps you use through your broadband connection. Because we don't track that information, we don't use it to build a profile about you and we have never sold that information to anyone."
If that were the case, then Comcast, please explain why you ship wireless cable routers that DO NOT ALLOW the customer to edit or change their DNS servers?
And while I'm on this rant, WHY do they ship your LOCAL passphrase for your wireless network up to their cloud, where it is stored in PLAIN TEXT, and accessible over the interwebs in the name of "customer service"?
Browser manufacturers building in DNS lookups over an encrypted channel bypass this DNS lookup, and by extension, browser history data collection.
FWIW, I have never heard of the government compensating an ISP for collecting this type of data and passing it along, so they are probably accurate when they claim to not be SELLING it.
The only reason ANYONE does business with Comcast, is because they are a monopoly, and you have no viable choice.
-Red