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When you are Google, the internet is not a dumb pipe. For example they can correlate the youtube videos you are watching from your phone.



Doesn't this violate net neutrality?


What net neutrality? Net neutrality was repealed over a year ago.


What net neutrality? And even when net neutrality rules were on the books, companies still got away with stuff like this.


In a minor way. The neutral alternative would be a system that allows bursting but then caps everything down to about 1.5Mbps.

They're not really trying to discriminate between types of data, they're trying to lower the 95th percentile.


Yes. There are no US wireless (LTE) carriers that offer L7-neutral internet access.


Other carriers do this too.




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