In interviews with Vanity Fair, Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, said President Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality,” called JD Vance a “conspiracy theorist” and concluded that Pam Bondi “completely whiffed” the early handling of the Epstein files.
Straight up mafia behavior
I believe that; the unfortunate side-effect (if it even IS only just a side-effect) is that it becomes even easier for your ISP and/or the various web sites (and tracking companies, etc) to build a dossier of exactly who is reading what.
Under a regime like this one, that could spell some real trouble.
The ISP will get which news outlets you read, but not which articles. Not ideal, but perhaps not as bad as you fear