Verizon wants a piece of Google's ad business
We all hate ads, no doubt about it. But I don&#x27;t like the way media is going about accusing Comcast and Verizon for what the consumers brought upon themselves. Comcast&#x2F;Verizon simply want exactly what Google does. AFAIK, Google does not &quot;prompt&quot; me saying that they mine my data and use it to show ads. In fact, I just tried creating a gmail account and there is no such explicit popup dialog that tell me this information. Same goes for facebook. There should be a popup saying &quot;We use your data to show you ads&quot;. As simple as that. But no. There is no such thing.<p>This is the same that Verizon&#x2F;Comcast wants to do. Provide an arbitrary service (i.e ISP) and also do something else with the data. Just because, I _pay_ comcast but don&#x27;t pay Google does not relinquish Google from the responsibility. IMO, we need new internet&#x2F;tech laws that explicitly cover companies that monetize user data.<p>Maybe someone can help me understand the distinction between these two.