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‘I fought my ISPs bad behavior and won’

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Eric Helgeson found that his ISP was redirecting him to merchants using their affiliate links: > When looking at the URLs a little more closely I noticed fwdsnp was adding affiliate ID’s into the URLs. Did I have some malware that was hijacking my requests? I switched to Google’s DNS and the affiliate IDs were…

Eric Helgeson found that his ISP was redirecting him to merchants using their affiliate links:

> When looking at the URLs a little more closely I noticed fwdsnp was adding affiliate ID’s into the URLs. Did I have some malware that was hijacking my requests? I switched to Google’s DNS and the affiliate IDs were not injected into the URLs. Then I noticed one of the affiliate’s name was Arvig, which happens to be my ISP. Confirmed. It looks like I’m not the only one[1].

Read the article for the ISP response, it’s classic.

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