Use OpenVPN; the Mikrotiks support it although setup is easier from the command-line than their gui.

The client for Windows works well.

Mikrotik has cheap ones too, that work great.

http://routerboard.com/RB750GL.

They're already doing this in Vancouver.

If that's the only choice to evade their data gathering, then yeah. Obviously it would be better to buy a car you can trust, but from who?

Yank it out and put in an aftermarket one that you know isn't spying on you.

Always told to us, of course, by people who themselves live in mansions, travel via private jet, and are driven around in armoured SUVs.

Well, they have PaaS covered with Azure.

Anyone who believes things just because their chosen party proclaims them to be true is probably an idiot. Even politicians mostly just pretend to believe most of the crud they spew.

Their entire business is based on monitoring your internet usage and using that to learn about you so advertisers can make more money from you. Of course they're monitoring your Internet usage.

A much better question would be, what possible motive could they have for offering a "free" service that doesn't monitor you?

I still want the land the Saxons stole from my British ancestors. And let's not even mention the Romans and Vikings.

I don't know why you think I'm a repub. I'd terminate all corporate welfare instantly if it was up to me. And let the banks die when they screw up.

Vancouver's full of them, too. And the Gulf islands. And they're about as "liberal", as in loony-leftie, as it gets.

Delusion is thinking there's an infinite amount of other people's money available for your pet projects.

The problem is that things a lefty court might think are obligations are not necessarily things taxpayers can actually afford to do.

If history is any guide, righting the ship of state is incredibly unlikely. Dictatorship and some form of imperial rule are far more likely outcomes.