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My impression from the article is that the ad-blocking is done at the client, when they use the ISP's standard software install. So TLS/HTTPS won't help.
by gojomo 14y ago
My impression from the article is that the ad-blocking is done at the client, when they use the ISP's standard software install. So TLS/HTTPS won't help.
- chii 14y agoin this day and age, requiring installation of software from the ISP to get online is very suspicious, and should be frowned up on. I would explain to a non-technical person by analogy - imagine the telco needed you to use _their_ particular telephone when you make/recieve calls.
- qbrass 14y agoIt shouldn't be hard to imagine for a lot of people who lived before the mid 80's. The Bell monopoly required you to not only use their handsets, you usually had to lease the phone from them.
- boq 14y agoFree, as well as all major ISPs in France, rents you a router when you subscribe. This is where the filtering is done, using lying DNSs it seems.