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Re: US internet providers hijacking users' search queries


From: Bradford Chatterjee <lists () knotclan com>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 19:17:17 -0700

Search engines are the ones that are paying for this redirection. Most of
the companies that approached us about this technology partner with Yahoo
for their error monetization. They want the eyeballs that come from
redirecting these mistyped URIs.

-Bradford Chatterjee

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Jimmy Hess <mysidia () gmail com> wrote:


I'd rather someone start making a blacklist of ISPs  that "inspect and
modify packets"  in transit
through their network  in any way  ( other than TTL decrementing ),   so
search engines could collectively
identify these ISPs and  choose to require  _all_  connections from them be
over SSL.




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