[143320] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US internet providers hijacking users' search queries
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bradford Chatterjee)
Fri Aug 5 22:17:58 2011
In-Reply-To: <CAAAwwbWYrgTGi1cziAbU+0bVGBPfZHn71iz_5W_MZfdNEBiQYw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 19:17:17 -0700
From: Bradford Chatterjee <lists@knotclan.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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.
>
>
