This is great news for consumers. Here in France, it’s a major pain in the ass to directly use your own router, thought not impossible. I did it with Open WRT on a Netgear Archer. It suddenly stopped working, and I suspect the VLAN config needed modification, but I gave up trying to bypass my ISP. I have their junk box again — to get something with Wifi 6 or meshing would be much more expensive. At least the fiber modem is integrated, so there’s a little less latency. I’m not a power user so the reward for patching together my own solution wasn’t high enough to teach myself networking, but the thing I absolutely cannot stand is the hardcoded DNS addresses.

It is a major privacy invasion for me. I use a VPN for a lot, but certain things can’t be done with VPNs, and it disturbs me that my partially state-owned ISP can gather that much more data on my online activity.