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Swedish ISP Bahnhof used the argument that an ISP shouldn't be seen as anything else than a postal service delivering packages. So this sort of feels like they
by towb 10y ago
Swedish ISP Bahnhof used the argument that an ISP shouldn't be seen as anything else than a postal service delivering packages. So this sort of feels like they want to open your letters, scan them, and maybe throw in a few coupons on matched words. But worse.
- yogenpro 10y agoThat's exactly what Chinese ISPs have been doing. They occasionally insert an HTML snippet to HTTP responses to create pop-up ads. (Scanning the data is done on government level so I won't even bother to mention it)
- Brybry 10y agoNot just Chinese ISPs. I've had Cox inject HTML/Javascript into my HTTP streams for a "test of their emergency messages system" and once for a customer survey. The survey might have been a DNS redirect instead as by the time I noticed I had already navigated away from the original page and that was one of my few machines that can sometimes use my ISP's DNS. The emergency message test was HTML/Javascript directly injected into a random non-encrypted page I had loaded.
- IMcD23 10y agoMediacom (cable internet in Iowa) does something similar. They insert a banner on the top of every HTTP page you view telling you when you're about to go over your 350GB data cap. Will appear until you click a button to dismiss it.
- em3rgent0rdr 10y agoXfinity WiFi tried this in 2014: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/why-comcasts-javascript-ad-injections-threaten-security-net-neutrality/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/why-comcasts-jav...