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Re:Firefox Installs non-free binaries from Cisco and Google ... by basch on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @10:37AM (#21992288)
It was normal in the US for an ISP to return a "helpful" page when you entered a nonexistant domain. It sort of looked like a search results page. In reality it usually turned into a page of ads. Each ISP may have been different with the volume of actual search results they returned on the page.
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Re:Firefox Installs non-free binaries from Cisco and Google ... by jfk13 on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @11:24AM (#21992796)
I've seen things like that in the UK, too; it's certainly not a US-only practice.
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