[cj]

I wonder what percent of Americans would trade their privacy to bring their monthly cell phone bill from $100/mo to $0/mo in exchange for sharing texts and emails with a telecom company.

I suspect the percentage would be surprisingly high.

Unfortunately normal people don’t really care that much about privacy (even if we all think everyone should).

[1oooqooq]

you mean, exactly like most the public on this site did when moving from Gmail and abandoning their isp provided email?

[lotsofpulp]

Why would ISP provided email be any more private than Gmail? If anything, I expect ISP provided email to be more compromised.

[mulmen]

Because it’s a lot easier to compromise one email provider instead of a million. I’m surprised I have to explain the benefits of federated over centralized systems here.

[1oooqooq]

at&t main revenue channel wasn't selling you to advertisers before google showed them how profitable, and willingly everyone was.