AT & T: Internet without surveillance at $ 29 more expensive

The original tariff plans offered to residents of Kansas City, the American Internet provider AT & T. A few days ago, the company began to connect users to gigabit fiber as part of the GigaPower service. Prices are the same as Google Fiber, but on one condition: the user must forget about privacy. If he does not agree, then access will be more expensive at $ 29 per month.

AT & T explains that $ 70 per month Gigabit Internet includes the “Internet Preferences” service, in which the provider tracks “visited web pages; time spent on each page; links or ads that you click on; entered search queries ... AT & T Internet Preferences works regardless of browser privacy settings regarding cookies, do-not-track and anonymous surfing. If you agree to the AT & T Internet Preferences program, then AT & T will collect information, whatever the settings listed. ”

The traffic of all users of the AT & T Internet Preferences program passes through a “web-surfing and analytics platform”. Profiling allows introducing personalized advertising into traffic, depending on the interests of each person.
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In turn, Google has assured that the history of surfing Google Fiber users is in no way analyzed and tracked. They also do not have different rates depending on privacy settings. On the other hand, all users are tracked on Google sites in any case, no matter what tariff they are on.

It must be said that a discount of $ 29 per month may well attract many AT & T subscribers.