We buy our DSL connectivity from a small local provider that we’ve been doing business with for years. We could pay a little less and go with one of the big companies, but when you read stories like this, you might understand why we’re happy with the status quo:
Canada’s largest provider of high-speed internet access is exploring a controversial data substitution technique that lets it add its own content to the webpages customers visit.
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This is what Net Neutrality is about — it’s not just making sure that data is handled in a competitive and non-discriminatory manner, but it’s also that the data that’s sent is the data that you get — that the content is unmodified, not with messages that are woven into your data stream.
UPDATE: Lauren Weinstein has an interesting solution to the problem: kiss http goodbye.
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December 12th, 2007 at 11:01 pm - Edit
I wonder if Firefox with the NoScript extension will block that. It must come across via the HTML and Java formats, and NoScript kills whatever javascript a webpage may produce should you so choose.
Might be another interesting workaround. And a lot easier than changing everyone over to secure servers.
December 13th, 2007 at 8:26 pm - Edit
Well, it’s either date substitution or it’s back to Subliminal Messages.