Yes, they. The three ISPs he has to choose from. Context. He's not going to meaningfully opt out from dealing with the scale of the services Google provides online by choosing slower internet. We have to encrypt our traffic, secure our browsers and devices. And even then they will passively circumvent many of our efforts not to scrutinized.

In the end privacy is for me a way of judging the quality of my connection. But I do need a quantity of that connection, and if I'm going to shield my traffic obsessively anyways I'd pick Google Fiber.

We're picking between three companies that all collaborate with whatever law enforcement or spy agency comes knocking or visiting.