Echo5 comments on T-Mobile illegally imposed 50GB cap on low-income home Internet plan, NY says: Law requires 25Mbps home Internet. T-Mobile lowers speed to 600Kbps after 50GB cap.

[–] Echo5@lemmy.world 32 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

This is one reason why privacy is important, companies knowing your info directly impacts your wallet.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 24 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

This particular one has nothing to do with privacy. They have to offer a specific type of plan by law, they nerfed that plan.

Which is not to say corporations knowing everything about you is good in any way, but this is simply a different issue (with corporations)

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[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Agreed. Whether they can see your traffic or not, they can still determine how much bandwidth you're using and what plan you're using.

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[–] WhiplashPost@programming.dev 1 point 5 hours ago (1 child)

Technically under the most private way of doing things we could just lump all traffic from a geographical area into one and not let them know who is who. So then they wouldn't even know how much bandwidth you used. They also wouldn't be able to do seperate "plans" it would just be you paying a flat rate for access to the same internet connection everyone else uses.

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[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 1 point 5 hours ago

I'm not sure if that would be the most equitable solution either as what would prevent Netflix or YouTube from setting their servers up in your geographical region and consuming all your bandwidth for their own profit while only paying the same rate that you do? It could also be challenging for rural regions as they'll have a lot fewer people sharing the cost of the infrastructure over a large area.

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