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In France, Free (one of the major telcos) has done exactly that. They block ads from the router that they give to their subscribers. I guess they may be doing
by chiefstorm 4y ago
In France, Free (one of the major telcos) has done exactly that. They block ads from the router that they give to their subscribers.
I guess they may be doing that to save bandwidth... They also have a tendency to offer features that few of their subscribers use, or even know about (some of their routers come with built-in VPN servers and torrent seedboxes).
In French: https://www.universfreebox.com/article/19260/Comment-fonctionne-le-blocage-de-publicites-de-la-Freebox-Revolution https://www.universfreebox.com/article/19260/Comment-fonctio...
- bradwood 4y agoIf they do this wholesale, they should probably block this at their BGP routers.
- alaricus 4y agoI've seen this implemented in hilarious ways: https://www.cnet.com/culture/how-pakistan-knocked-youtube-offline-and-how-to-make-sure-it-never-happens-again/ https://www.cnet.com/culture/how-pakistan-knocked-youtube-of...