[gfisher]

As a recent Austin subscriber to AT&Ts GigaPower, I opted to let them snoop on my traffic for the discount. I really didn't see the difference in what they were doing versus Google or any other search engine. That, along with the significant price reduction ($320/mo versus $140/mo - they didn't let me bundle any services without the deal) led me to allow this.

As another poster mentioned - if I get really paranoid, I will eventually set up a VPN, and tunnel all of my traffic through that.

I did want to add that once Google Fiber comes to my neighborhood, I will be jumping ship though. We have had two significant outages in the first month of GigaPower.

[Tepix]

The most obvious difference is that they get to see all your traffic, not just those websites which integrate google analytics (which can be a sizeable chunk).

If your smartphone also uses AT&T they see that traffic also. The only place where you are hidden from them is at work.

[gfisher]

>The only place where you are hidden from them is at work.

Of course, at work we have Gigapower as well.

[Igglyboo]

I agree, they are supposedly only using that data for targeted ads which can easily be defeated by a using abp or a hosts file.

[judk]

Google works a lot harder to protect your data and not download a copy to every government office, unlike AT&T