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This is illegal under EU law:https://blog.pagefair.com/2015/despite-the-hype-isp-adblocking-is-a-no-go-in-europe/ https://blog.pagefair.com/2015/despite-the-hyp
by s_dev 11y ago
This is illegal under EU law:https://blog.pagefair.com/2015/despite-the-hype-isp-adblocking-is-a-no-go-in-europe/ https://blog.pagefair.com/2015/despite-the-hype-isp-adblocki...
What makes it illegal is Deep Packet Inspection.
- cr3ative 11y agoI can't spot a reference to DPI or Shine in the article, but they could block ads somewhat effectively without DPI using DNS blacklists, for example.
- s_dev 11y agoApparently: Li Ka Shing (owner of Hutchison Whampoa -> owner of Three) is also investor in Shine Seems to be true: http://uk.businessinsider.com/digicel-becomes-first-mobile-carrier-to-sign-up-shine-ad-blocker-2015-9?r=US&IR=T http://uk.businessinsider.com/digicel-becomes-first-mobile-c...
- lhopki01 11y agoAlmost certainly done by host blacklisting. Even ad blockers on computers usually do this. It's just easier.
- JoshTriplett 11y agoBrowser-integrated adblockers can do better, because they have access to the page content. Host-based blacklists don't work as well; they can only handle hosts that serve ads and nothing else, not hosts that serve both ads and non-ads. But yeah, host-based blacklisting is the only approach with a hope of working outside the browser. Transparently proxying web traffic wouldn't (and shouldn't) work with HTTPS, and is an incredibly bad idea even with HTTP.