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ISP Is Bypassing Firefox's Location Bar Search

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the that's-not-kosher dept.

It was only a matter of time before ISPs began doing more than just redirecting failed DNS requests to their own pages. An anonymous reader writes "It looks like the largest ISP in Hong Kong has started bypassing search results from Firefox's location bar (which typically uses Google), forcing their own search provider (yp.com.hk) onto their users. ... Can an ISP just start re-directing search traffic at will?"

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  1. Encryption by dmbasso · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And that's why we should start using encryption for everything...

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  2. Not much evidence yet... by Interoperable · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The article is a single post on a forum from one user with no follow-up. Can anyone else confirm the allegation?

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    So if this is the future...where's my jet pack?