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Re:Amazon has a patent to keep people from comparison shoppi... by cookiecaper on Friday June 16, 2017 @02:05PM (#14571275)
AFAIK net neutrality doesn't make it illegal to tamper with traffic (only to apply discriminatory QoS/throttling), and only applies at the telco/ISP level.

Internal routers rely heavily on traffic blocking and manipulation. Many corporate networks inject their own HTTPS certificates so that they can still analyze/detect/block HTTPS traffic, for example. Most public wifi access points in the US will hijack traffic until the user agrees to a Terms of Use or something ("captive portal").

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Re:Amazon has a patent to keep people from comparison shoppi... by orbitingpluto on Friday June 16, 2017 @06:06PM (#14572984)
That doesn't mean it's not illegal.

For banks that don't encrypt everything, changing an advertised rate from another would probably run afoul of all sorts of illegal.

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