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[ NNSquad ] One more update on the French ISP who was blocking ads
One more update on the French ISP who was blocking ads It's been noted that one mechanism that this ISP might have used at the (company provided) modem/router level -- that could have affected SSL pages in some situations as well as non-SSL pages -- would be to tamper with DNS resolving for common ad delivery networks, in a manner that would prevent access to ads being pulled into pages as individual URLs within the SSL (or non-SSL) pages themselves. Obviously this would only function in situations where separate URLs were used to access those ad networks (a very common technique). If ads were already embedded within the context of a single SSL-delivered page, they would not be subject to alteration or blocking by an ISP via this mechanism. It could easily be argued that any such tampering with DNS resolving by an ISP, especially by default, is a serious violation of Net Neutrality principles in and of itself. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad