It appears that VZW is injecting a UID/UIDH into its web traffic that is acting as a perma-cookie to track clients for advertising and marketing purposes. What makes this really messed up, beside...
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It appears that VZW is injecting a UID/UIDH into its web traffic that is acting as a perma-cookie to track clients for advertising and marketing purposes. What makes this really messed up, besides the obvious lack of disclosure going on, is that websites can use this UID maliciously to data mine even if I have "do not track" features turned on with my mobile browser. As this tracking takes place on the network level, I feel its grossly unfair that there's no way to turn this tracking off with Verizon. It is a blatant disregard for the privacy of mobile users, and furthermore it artificially uses up our mobile data allowance! Mind explaining yourselves and why we have to pay more in data usage for YOU to collect data on US? Mind explaining how you care about consumer privacy when you engage in privacy snooping practices such as this? Check yourselves here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8500131 or here http://lessonslearned.org/sniff