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Tool Detects "In-Flight" Webpage Alterations

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the its-like-a-foil-hat-for-your-browser dept.

TheWoozle writes "In a follow-up to a recent story about ISPs inserting ads into web pages, the University of Washington security and privacy research group has teamed with the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) to develop an online tool to help you identify if your ISP is inserting ads or otherwise modifying the web pages you request."

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  1. Answers to questions in this thread by nweaver · · Score: 5, Informative

    We (the authors of the page) will be answering questions in this thread.

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  2. Please don't post negative results! by maggard · · Score: 4, Informative

    No need for thousands of "All good in Kalamazoo" & "Up to date in Kansas City" posts.

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  3. A possible workaround by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 4, Informative

    A friend of mine had a similar problem with his webpages. They were on a free host (rolls eyes). I wrote a script for him to store special tags to denote the beginning and the end of his webpage content. After the webpage was loaded, a script erased everything and replaced all the html with his marked content. Ta-da, no ads!

    If you want to be stricter, encode your webpage content with base64 to make sure the ads don't intrude your precious content.

  4. Re:Next week on Slashdot by nweaver · · Score: 4, Informative

    We are specifically worried about this case. But we have some thoughts on how to make it more difficult for someone to do that, which will probably end up in a full paper later.

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