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Once my ISP (Cox Communication) injected a message into a web page I was reading to notify me of their planned service downtime. So I wonder the legality aspect

Once my ISP (Cox Communication) injected a message into a web page I was reading to notify me of their planned service downtime. So I wonder the legality aspect of this type of injection. Is anyone who transmits data can modify pages?

johansch 12y ago
I'm not aware of any such case going to court anywhere, although it probably has by now. In Sweden a couple of years ago, the largest mobile operator Telia injected some toolbar with ads on top of all mobile web content. Within a working day literally all of the swedish media sites had collectively blocked all access to their web sites from Telia mobile IP ranges. The next day the ad toolbar was gone.
- yourad_io 12y ago
  > Within a working day literally all of the swedish media sites had collectively blocked all access to their web sites from Telia mobile IP ranges. The next day the ad toolbar was gone. That's amazing - the market kicking back in full force and putting a giant back in its place. In other markets/regions this would just pass. Do you have a source? I tried some googling but my English keywords seem to have no power ;)
  - johansch 12y ago
    https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fjardenberg.se%2Ftelia-surf-closed-not-open%2F&edit-text= https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=y&prev... and https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=sv&tl=en&u=http://www.dagensmedia.se/nyheter/article13360.ece&usg=ALkJrhjV0Lmar5Sl0xQfoIvITPpfV7j7kw https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&... Seems like my memory was a bit hazy. The issue was that not that they inserted their own ads on top of mobile content, but that they inadvertedly blocked some ad content in the actual sites.

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Once my ISP (Cox Communication) injected a message into a web page I was reading to notify me of their planned service downtime. So I wonder the legality aspect

by antimora 12y ago

johansch 12y ago
I'm not aware of any such case going to court anywhere, although it probably has by now. In Sweden a couple of years ago, the largest mobile operator Telia injected some toolbar with ads on top of all mobile web content. Within a working day literally all of the swedish media sites had collectively blocked all access to their web sites from Telia mobile IP ranges. The next day the ad toolbar was gone.
- yourad_io 12y ago
  > Within a working day literally all of the swedish media sites had collectively blocked all access to their web sites from Telia mobile IP ranges. The next day the ad toolbar was gone. That's amazing - the market kicking back in full force and putting a giant back in its place. In other markets/regions this would just pass. Do you have a source? I tried some googling but my English keywords seem to have no power ;)
  - johansch 12y ago
    https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fjardenberg.se%2Ftelia-surf-closed-not-open%2F&edit-text= https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=y&prev... and https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=sv&tl=en&u=http://www.dagensmedia.se/nyheter/article13360.ece&usg=ALkJrhjV0Lmar5Sl0xQfoIvITPpfV7j7kw https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&... Seems like my memory was a bit hazy. The issue was that not that they inserted their own ads on top of mobile content, but that they inadvertedly blocked some ad content in the actual sites.