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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. This proxy thing has been used before by gravos · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Back in the days of 56k modems some ISPs used to use proxies to make images smaller so sites would appear to download faster. This is a much more despicable use. I leave ads on so I can support the sites that I like, but I would be outraged if it turned out the ads were actually coming from my ISP who I was already paying.

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  2. Re:Suprise! by RobertM1968 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yeah, but isnt this sadly what GeoCities (was) and others have been getting away with doing for years?

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