It’s happened, and people should start getting upset. Rogers has begun injecting packets to indicate that people have reached their “usage allowance” into arbitrary websites – which curiously does not include Google, likely due to the previous public outcry when test images appeared on Ars Technica.
The top frame on nearly every website obscures text and causes web pages to load extremely slowly. In my testing, the content loaded from 64.71.251.10 and often required websites to be reloaded before they would display properly. Unlike preview screen captures of this technology, there is no way to select “don’t display this message again”.
For interested individuals, the “acknowledge” address is http://64.71.251.10/isnsack.pl, which uses a JavaScript function to submit a CGI request.
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