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Why? If your ISP is giving you up, what does google matter?


Most Google services can work over SSL (after years of pressure). That trumps ISP's DPI. And live traffic is nothing compared to your search history (with location and profiling) and email.


Do you think the NSA has gotten all the internet giants to bow down but somehow failed to get root certificates? SSL is not going to keep you out of this sort of surveillance.




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