MTNL Broadband is injecting ads on your computer pretending it's a feature

[pratikr]

There is no ads on other site.

 

[Navjot Singh]

There are. This is a randomly injected popup and can appear anywhere. I have noticed it on many sites myself and I am assuming so have others.

 

[Sushubh]

MTNL doesn't hate me bro.

 

[Jagat]

Actually if the ISP is involved itself, then they can modify the HTTPS pages too. Read about the Flying Pig project.

 

[amish]

No one can not modify HTTPS sites without installing "root certificates" (which they use) on client machines.

 

[eskay]

Guys, I still say: write to everybody at MTNL and elsewhere. If MTNL customers will not up this invasion of privacy who else will?

 

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[Jagat]

@amish You are right, without root certificate it is not possible. We should use https to prevent adphonso from showing popups.
@eskay I have already sent 2 emails to various people in MTNL, but nobody replied.

 

[Sushubh]

I need forum software to locally cache hotlinked images to properly switch to https. Xenforo has internal feature now. Ipb might have a plugin. Would decide when version 4 comes out.

 

[coming soon]

but https is not a solution for this problem if it will not appear here it will appear on some other site

 

[Sushubh]

I was thinking about the forum in general. HTTPS is a good idea in all cases.