New Freebox update censors ads by default for 5.5M users

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Post by mnml_ » Thu, Jan 03, 2013, 5:52 PM UTC

New Freebox update censors ads by default for 5.5M users
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Post by pavel_lishin » Thu, Jan 03, 2013, 5:55 PM UTC

Without an option to disable this, or an option to white-list certain things, this is basically just highly targeted censorship.

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Post by mnml_ » Thu, Jan 03, 2013, 6:03 PM UTC

pavel_lishin wrote: post #2

Without an option to disable this, or an option to white-list certain things, this is basically just highly targeted censorship.

Its possible to disable it but it's enabled by default. Lets see how long they last before Google strike back ! Free has always been in trouble with Google because they don't want to pay for the peering.

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Post by kondor6c » Thu, Jan 03, 2013, 6:31 PM UTC

I'm sure that this would also reduce traffic on some of nosiest advertisements which would benefit an ISP greatly.

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Post by laurentoget » Thu, Jan 03, 2013, 6:39 PM UTC

mnml_ wrote: post #3

pavel_lishin wrote: post #2

Without an option to disable this, or an option to white-list certain things, this is basically just highly targeted censorship.

Its possible to disable it but it's enabled by default. Lets see how long they last before Google strike back ! Free has always been in trouble with Google because they don't want to pay for the peering.

Knowing the reputation of Xavier Niel, he is gleefully waiting for Google's counter attack.

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Post by martinced » Thu, Jan 03, 2013, 7:16 PM UTC

This is huge news.

ISPs modifying the HTML served is a big issue. I'm not that much of a fan of ads, but disabling ads is crazy.

It's not working that well apparently.

First thing is: a lot of Google ads are served directly inside GMail (these are the ones I notice the most) and at the top of the result from Google search.

If that trafis is over HTTPS I've gat to wonder how Free plans to filter them out.

But in any way: Free already wanted to throttle YouTube, which is not OK.

If I'm paying Free that much of an amount each month I want my bandwith. I Free cannot provide me the bandwith I want, then I'll go to an ISP who can and who doesn't throttle me.

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Post by twiceaday » Thu, Jan 03, 2013, 7:35 PM UTC

'Censorship' of spam emails is ubiquitous. How is this different from that for an end-user?

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Post by Nikkau » Thu, Jan 03, 2013, 7:44 PM UTC

martinced wrote: post #6

This is huge news. ISPs modifying the HTML served is a big issue. I'm not that much of a fan of ads, but disabling ads is crazy. It's not working that well apparently. First thing is: a lot of Google ads are served directly inside GMail (these are the ones I notice the most) and at the top of the result from Google search. If that trafis is over HTTPS I've gat to wonder how Free plans to filter them out. But in any w…

Free isn't modifying HTML, but filtering ads servers IPs.

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Post by jdangu » Thu, Jan 03, 2013, 8:46 PM UTC

The flip side of net neutrality issues.

Don't tamper with my Internet please.

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Post by VeejayRampay » Thu, Jan 03, 2013, 9:22 PM UTC

Good riddance though. I wish other ISPs would follow suit.

People do NOT like advertisements, the popularity of AdBlock shows that pretty clearly.