[143392] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US internet providers hijacking users' search queries
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Oren Levin)
Mon Aug 8 19:57:44 2011
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:57:05 -0400
From: Oren Levin <lists@pinetree.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20110807161029.GA50031@gweep.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 8/7/11 12:10 PM, Joe Provo wrote:
> This is finally something new, and I retract my assertion that the new
> scientist got it wrong. Drilling through to actual evidence and
> details, rather than descriptions which match previous behavior, we
> have both
> http://www.usenix.org/event/leet11/tech/full_papers/Zhang.pdf (a
> little indirect with 'example.com', etc) and
> http://www.payne.org/index.php/Frontier_Search_Hijacking (with actual
> domains) provide detail on the matter. Cheers! Joe
I noticed that the payne.org link calls out the insertion of an Amazon
affiliate code. Section 7 of the Amazon affiliate agreement
(https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/agreement) appears
to explicitly prohibit payment for this type of traffic.
Oren
