Great news, Comcast users: Your favorite cableco is selling your viewing habits to analytics biz Comscore

Comcast has signed a deal with analytics company Comscore to sell its subscribers' viewing habits. The news emerged after Comscore gave a briefing to investors on the deal, and saw its share price jump 20 per cent as a result. Since then, Comscore has signed a similar agreement with video-streaming service Twitch to obtain its …

[Antron Argaiv]

The pool's getting smaller

I cut the TV service a couple of years ago. Have not missed it. I can get everything I need on The Internet.

So I assume they are also logging and selling which websites I visit. Good for them. I don't really care, since I have Adblock on,

I don't see any "tailored advertising" anyway.

I have few complaints about Comcast:

- their service is usually reliable (except see below)

- they do tend to make changes which require me to reset my modem once every couple of weeks

- as long as you don't have to interact with them, they provide an acceptable service (if overpriced)

[JohnFen]

This sort of thing

This sort of thing is why I'm happy that I don't have cable TV, and why I don't use video-streaming services, including Twitch (with the exception of YouTube, but I use that in a very locked-down way). I just assume that all online service providers is selling data collected about me, the use of my machines, and my use of their services to however is willing to pay.

I don't trust a single one of them.

[Trigonoceps occipitalis]

presumably anonymized to strip out personally identifying information

And no one will be able to de-anonymize the data, no one, ever, in any way, we promise, cross our heart, on my mother's life.