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ISPs Inserting Ads Into Your Pages

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-just-slimey dept.

TheWoozle writes "Some ISPs are resorting to a new tactic to increase revenue: inserting advertisements into web pages requested by their end users. They use a transparent web proxy (such as this one) to insert javascript and/or HTML with the ads into pages returned to users. Neither the content providers nor the end-users have been notified that this is taking place, and I'm sure that they weren't asked for permission either."

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  1. Re:2nd level firehose? by scum-e-bag · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I thought that as I read the linked articles.

    How did a crap story like this get onto the front page of slashdot?

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    Does it go on forever?