Your internet provider can see bits and pieces of almost everything you do online: the sites you visit, the apps you use, the services you connect to. It’s an unpleasant reality for anyone concerned with their privacy, since this information can reveal a whole lot about you. But it’s stayed that way because that’s how internet providers want it — and government regulators feel compelled to listen.

At least until last year. While President Obama was in office, the FCC passed a landmark privacy order that required internet providers to get permission before sharing sensitive information about you — and, for the first time, that included your web browsing history.

Internet providers weren’t happy about it because it could cut into their…

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