Cloak does this:
It isn’t a dumb question at all. It makes people like me inspect your traffic closer.
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It is insanely easy to detect, monitor, and throttle this kind of traffic. Nearly impossible to decrypt, I give you that. However encryption is one leg of a three legged stool. How the carp do you think people like me still intercept traffic?
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And (at the very least. if you’re paying for it) trust that they’re hosted by an ISP that doesn’t care about piracy on their network. And that the ISP’s ISP(s) don’t care. And…
Thanks. It’s nearly perfect, except for the iOS part.
“People can use a VPN” has been one of the standard talking points that the telco lobbyists have used in trying to justify this betrayal of privacy they’re hoping to get from Congress. This is of course a red herring: only a small fraction of humans have VPN accounts and know how to use them. And even if you know how to use one, it isn’t always practical to use them.
For random ironic example, I tried to log in to post this reply via a VPN, but Disqus / bbs.boingboing.net told me “you can’t log in as (username) from that IP address”.
Users will be much better off if these privacy protections are universal and automatic. So please call your Senator this week and we can keep ISPs from spying on and messing with our traffic!
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I’ve seen that before when using a VPN to access BB.
Google will also often make you verify that you are not a robot when doing a search.
The solution is to usually reset the VPN so that you get a new IP, but that isn’t always easy or convenient.
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there you go with your pesky facts again…
:hug:
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Given how many topics on the BBS have been referencing male genitalia in the last few days, I can only imagine what my ISP is gonna think of me… 
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Just wait for search optimization to start targeting you for male enhancement pills and “herbal Viagra”.
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You mean weed and an album by Sarah Vaughn?
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♫ Whatever Comcast wants…Comcast gets ♬
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But we are all already tracked all the time, aren’t we? Seriously, what creepy stuff will your ISP do that google and facebook are not already doing?
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I love Sarah Vaughan, but this song is owned by Gwen Verdon.
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I love Gwen Verdon, but her voice is no comparison to Sarah Vaughan. 
She’s also got a better voice than Harry Belafonte, but I far prefer his recording of the Banana Boat Song to hers.
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You got me there.
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How about using honeypots to attack your ISP and their buddies if they harvest your target data?
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