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This makes me rather unhappy. I'm seeing this on Verizon. Can someone with an alternative mobile provider like Sprint or T-Mobile test this, too?

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> This makes me rather unhappy. I'm seeing this on Verizon. Can someone with an alternative mobile provider like Sprint or T-Mobile test this, too?

I would guess that voting with your feet would be the most effective response. While many think consumers don't care (or don't understand), we can see many vendors beginning to emphasize confidentiality features.

I'm not sure if I value my confidentiality more than the unlimited talk/data/text plan on which I'm grandfathered. It's a hard change to make, especially considering I no longer see the tracking data after I disabled it in my settings.

At least with that page I "did not receive X-UIDH header" on T-Mobile. Didn't check for headers with other names.

I'm on T-Mobile and using http://httpbin.org/headers I did not get any headers I would not expect from Chrome.

I just tested mine, but the situation is a bit complicated. My service is with T-mobile in the US, but I am currently connecting through Movistar Chile. The response from the website was:

> did not receive X-UIDH header.

So I presume I can say that Movistar Chile is not inserting that into the header. Not sure about T-Mobile (US) though.

If you are roaming and using the T-Mobile APN, then you're still going through the T-Mobile data infrastructure.

When you're in China and roaming on a foreign operator, you're not affected by the Great Firewall since you're data goes through the APN in your home country.

Okay, thanks for the clarification. I did just check and I have an American geolocated IP, consistent with what you said.

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