[143318] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US internet providers hijacking users' search queries
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Provo)
Fri Aug 5 21:14:40 2011
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 21:14:00 -0400
From: Joe Provo <nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 05:04:51PM -0700, Bino Gopal wrote:
> http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20768-us-internet-providers-hijacking-users-search-queries.html
It is more than slightly misleading to say "hijacking search
queries"; paxfire is evil as it hijacks dns and breaks NXDOMAIN
and they've been doing that for ages. The user behavior of
searching in the address bar has become more common place, and
browser behavior to try and resolve first, fallback to search
for the same input field has both trained the humans to keep
doing this and made it possible for DNS query interlopers to
appear to be generic-search interlopers.
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