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They would be sued to hell as the role of an isp is not to be a regulator of what a company can and can not do.


It could be sold as security feature for additional $1 per year.


Try $5 a month. $2.99 if you're lucky.

I'm surprised ISPs aren't providing this service already. Just run a virtual PiHole for your customers.


Most ISPs are also content providers, so they may not be able to based on contract agreements they have (e.g. to get the nbc app preinstalled on a roku, they cannot block xyz domains on any of their corporate networks)


Same issue. Once you enter subjective territory of what is good and what is bad, you are looking for troubles, especially if a for profit company is behind providing such a service. An obvious conflict of interest arises.


why? Net neutrality has been struck down. The ISP can basically throttle/block whatever they feel like, right?




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