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I have now seen multiple articles about this and none of them talked about how much use it was actually getting today, which I have found disappointing.

Not sure why none that I have seen have been any better.

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It sounds like AOL won’t disclose that information and the only national survey anyone has cited doesn’t distinguish by ISP.

Disclosure would likely sooner or later compare actual users to people paying for the service, and while a discrepancy of orders of magnitude more of the latter probably wasn't illegal (unless some enterprising AG decides to make it a crime) it would be very bad press. No point in risking that when they can just stay mum.

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