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There would not have been such a uptick of ad blocking software if advertisers had "self policed" just like the consumer ISP market so I have very little sympathy for them. You made your bed, deal with it.

So I'm all for the FCC to come down much harder than before and advertisers to feel the pain, the lack of good privacy protection in the US will hopefully improve as a result of these events.

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> the lack of good privacy protection in the US will hopefully improve as a result of these events.

Nope, it will be not. Facebook, Twitter and Google depend on lax privacy laws for their business, and the NSA/FBI/CIA/... depend on private companies mining and analyzing the data for them.

Two very politically powerful entity groups that will do everything neccessary to prevent proper privacy on the Internet.

Yup. And the people complaining about it will then obediently re-elect the politicians who give in to those groups. Nothing will change.

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