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I don't know if it's true, but I've heard that some ISPs route your entire traffic through their machines. They even have access to your IP packets. Very shady!
by tzahola 9y ago
I don't know if it's true, but I've heard that some ISPs route your entire traffic through their machines. They even have access to your IP packets. Very shady!
- rocqua 9y agoISP's intercepting HTTP traffic to modify it is far from unheard of. In the best case, this is to notify customers of required changes. This is actually used by comcast [1]. In the worst case, this is a service sold to advertisers, or a service that includes arbitrary java-script injection. For something close to the worst case, see [2] (previously discussed on HN [3]). [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6108 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6108 [2] https://defplex.wordpress.com/2017/08/15/how-a-south-african-isp-hacks-it-subscribers-each-month/ https://defplex.wordpress.com/2017/08/15/how-a-south-african... [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15423393 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15423393
- tzahola 9y agoWhy on Earth would you visit plain HTTP sites with JavaScript enabled?
- drchickensalad 9y agoBecause you have to be in the know-how and do work to achieve that?
- gcb0 9y agoyou're so late to the party. verizon even adds tracking cookies to your outgoing http requests