US broadband privacy rules repealed

I admit to being somewhat dismayed at the repeal of the broadband privacy rules adopted by the FCC last October whereby ISPs were charged with the protection of customer privacy instead of the websites accessed by their customers such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook, etc.

Those rules were still pending and would have required consumer consent prior to the provision of geolocation, financials, health data, children information, and browser history for advertising and marketing.

Now inasmuch as I can selectively block advertising and scoff at the whiny sites that complain that I have an "ad blocker" when I don't ... I am also of the persuasion that more privacy is better.

This has been countered by the administration which contends that the Obama rules repealed woutld have unfairly given websites the ability to harvest more data than ISPs.

I see more anonymous proxies and add blocking in my future. Those sites which choose to deny me access can simply do so and be damned. I'm not one of these facebook addicts and other twits who cannot stand not to be online telling everything they (think they) know to anyone who happens to venture by.

Those who cannot implement anonymous proxies and block sites that collect ads for the ISPs and websites will fall prey to these dreaded "smart ads" so many encounter advertising search engine queries and stores nearby.

I remain on the fence regarding this particular repeal and will give the benefit of the doubt to the administration.