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Rogers, a meddling IAP

by Roedy Green <see_website@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dec 15, 2007 at 10:58 PM

Rogers is a large Canadian IAP ( Internet Access Provider). They have
got Google hot under the collar, and presumably others my inserting
content into web pages of third parties, e.g. Google.

If they want to insert content (ads, billing notices, warnings of
limits etc), they should run some little RSS program on the desktop
that users can turn off if they want.

I think this should be smacked down.  It is like letting a dandelion
get a foothold on your lawn.

The other problem is this sort of meddling could interfere with Java
Applets or Apps that appear to be exchanging web pages, but are really
exchanging carefully formatted data.  The inserted content could
confuse the programs.

-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
The Java Glossary
http://mindprod.com
 




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Rogers, a meddling IAP
Roedy Green <see_websi  2007-12-15 22:58:52 
Re: Rogers, a meddling IAP
Nobody <not@[EMAIL PRO  2007-12-15 22:50:33 
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Anarchore <e@[EMAIL PR  2007-12-15 20:21:36 
Re: Rogers, a meddling IAP
Roedy Green <see_websi  2007-12-16 18:35:36 
Re: Rogers, a meddling IAP
Nobody <not@[EMAIL PRO  2007-12-16 18:19:11 
Re: Rogers, a meddling IAP
Roedy Green <see_websi  2007-12-16 20:16:29 
Re: Rogers, a meddling IAP
Nobody <not@[EMAIL PRO  2007-12-16 21:30:34 
Re: Rogers, a meddling IAP
Roedy Green <see_websi  2007-12-16 22:24:21 
Re: Rogers, a meddling IAP
Nobody <not@[EMAIL PRO  2007-12-17 17:53:18 
Re: Rogers, a meddling IAP
The Ghost In The Machine   2007-12-17 12:41:37 
Re: Rogers, a meddling IAP
"Roy" <Iamno  2007-12-16 22:22:11 
Re: Rogers, a meddling IAP
Nobody <not@[EMAIL PRO  2007-12-17 17:58:07 
Re: Rogers, a meddling IAP
Mishagam <noemail@[EMA  2007-12-21 23:32:09 
Re: Rogers, a meddling IAP
The Ghost In The Machine   2007-12-17 12:21:16 
Re: Rogers, a meddling IAP
Daniel Pitts <newsgrou  2007-12-21 11:13:49 
Re: Rogers, a meddling IAP
Andrew Thompson <andre  2007-12-22 07:24:16 
Re: Rogers, a meddling IAP
Florian Weimer <fw@[EM  2007-12-23 01:06:08 
Re: Rogers, a meddling IAP
The Ghost In The Machine   2007-12-29 16:47:24 

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