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Title: Stop ad injections with HTTPS connections or a VPN Post by: HCK on August 28, 2015, 09:00:12 am Stop ad injections with HTTPS connections or a VPN
<article> <section class="page"> <p> AT&T got caught (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2976025/att-wi-fi-hotspot-reportedly-stuffs-extra-ads-into-web-pages.html) with its hands in the proverbial cookie jar. It was testing injecting advertising at one of its airport Wi-Fi hotspot locations, and one of the nation’s leading privacy advocates with expert technical proficiency was passing through. Jonathan Mayer wrote up his experience (http://webpolicy.org/2015/08/25/att-hotspots-now-with-advertising-injection/) on Tuesday; AT&T said on Wednesday it was an “experiment” it’s already discontinued.</p><p> Mayer’s curiosity was piqued when sites that feature no advertising (academic and government) and that already had some advertising sported more, including a banner stretched across the bottom, and pop-up ads that couldn’t be dismissed before a period of time had passed.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2976534/privacy/stop-ad-injections-with-https-connections-or-a-vpn.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Stop ad injections with HTTPS connections or a VPN (http://www.macworld.com/article/2976534/privacy/stop-ad-injections-with-https-connections-or-a-vpn.html#tk.rss_all) |