Get ready to say good-bye to your online privacy. Not that you ever really had it anyway.

The House of Representatives is set to vote as early as today on a resolution that would reverse Obama-era regulations preventing internet service providers from selling your web browsing history on the open market. Those rules, passed by the Federal Communications Commission last year, have yet to take effect. But if the House follows the Senate, which voted to rescind the privacy protections last week, the agency could also never pass similar rules again.

Despite the Republican crackup on health care, the House vote will likely come down along party lines, much as the Senate vote did. Even if by some long shot rogue GOPers blocked the resolution, the current FCC chair signaled earlier this month that he would likely kill or suspend the rules anyway. In the meantime, your internet provider is already free to sell your data without your opt-in permission.

All of which means you'll need to take your online privacy into your own hands. Several technical workarounds—especially virtual private networks, or VPNs—will return some semblance of control to you, the internet user. But even these solutions are far from perfect. When it comes to privacy, tech can help. But it doesn't take the place of having the law on your side.

Opting Out

The most basic thing you can do if and when your service provider tries to collect and sell your data? Switch to another provider—assuming you can find one that won't turn around and do the same. You might have a better chance in the wireless market, where four major carriers are competing for your business. But providers face so little competition in the home broadband market that you might be stuck.

Even if you can't switch providers, you might be able to opt out of having your data tracked. But you need to know that your provider is tracking you in the first place. Even then, carriers haven't always been transparent about how to opt out anyway.