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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. Sleezy by nicolas.kassis · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is as sleezy as it gets for an ISP. I hope firefox and google setup some sort of trusted cert and use HTTPS for the traffic from that bar. That might make it much harder for them to do men in the middle attacks of the sort. Google could sue the ISP for impersonation or something similar.

  2. Re:Windstream, DSL US ISP is already doing this by nweaver · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you are a windstream customer, could you please run netalyzr (http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu) and send teh results URL to netalyzr-help@icsi.berkeley.edu?

    I'd like to investigate this in further detail.

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