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Why do they need to sell browsing histories? There are numerous way to profit without actually selling history:

1) Come buy our trueTarget analytic service - add a keyword search and out comes the name of every one interested in say "Evening college" (Comcast also has the address on file obviously)

2) Political observers - This Zipcode has the most mentions for "Climate change hoax"

3) Porn/Medical/<other potentially embarrassing stuff> : Too many services here -

None of this sells individual browsing history yet which of these would be certainly illegal? This is a complete red herring to distract from the Republicans completely disgraceful sell out to big business.

If not illegal which of these would be ok under "we do not see your browsing history"?



"Por que no los dos?"

They can do all of those things and in addition sell your history to make more money.




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