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

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 Net neutrality was repealed over a year ago.

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_of_service

You can often circumvent those restrictions with a VPN.

Wonder if this is also one of the reasons that they try so hard to opt you into using their built-in "Google VPN"? Get some users that might otherwise use VPN software for "security in public places" to just trust Google instead.