I think that more information being available about order flow practices is all-in-all a good thing, and I encourage the relevant regulatory authorities to watch it like a hawk.<p>That said, I much prefer my free trades from Robinhood that are the outcome of payment for order flow, than I did the $25 it used to cost me to trade.  For the kind of trading I do, it is a much better deal to let the internalizers capture the spread (even if it is not the true spread) than it is to not have internalizers.