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Many high-profile commercial carriers will do deep packet inspection of the traffic from their end users, so that they can do insertion of their own ads into wh
by bradknowles 8y ago
Many high-profile commercial carriers will do deep packet inspection of the traffic from their end users, so that they can do insertion of their own ads into whatever content you may be surfing. Including on your webmail pages.
And their ad networks might well be infected with malware. But because of deep packet inspection and editing, you can't tell that the malvertising in question actually came from AT&T or Spectrum instead of Gmail.
- aquark 8y agoHow are they able to do ad insertion into a https page? I'm sure Google would not be happy with content injection into gmail.
- copperx 8y agoYeah,that doesn't make any sense, unless they're doing an MITM attack just to insert ads?
- lucb1e 8y agoI heard of one USA mobile carrier doing that at some point, but is it actually common anywhere on the planet? Even in the USA it seems to have been a one-off.