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Re:Ad Blocking Raises Alarm Among Firms Like Google by gojomo on Sunday January 06, 2013 @11:58PM (#5019453)
My impression from the article is that the ad-blocking is done at the client, when they use the ISP's standard software install. So TLS/HTTPS won't help.
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Re:Ad Blocking Raises Alarm Among Firms Like Google by boq on Monday January 07, 2013 @03:42AM (#5020085)
Free, as well as all major ISPs in France, rents you a router when you subscribe. This is where the filtering is done, using lying DNSs it seems.
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Re:Ad Blocking Raises Alarm Among Firms Like Google by chii on Monday January 07, 2013 @02:45AM (#5019942)
in this day and age, requiring installation of software from the ISP to get online is very suspicious, and should be frowned up on.

I would explain to a non-technical person by analogy - imagine the telco needed you to use _their_ particular telephone when you make/recieve calls.

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Re:Ad Blocking Raises Alarm Among Firms Like Google by qbrass on Monday January 07, 2013 @12:06PM (#5021935)
It shouldn't be hard to imagine for a lot of people who lived before the mid 80's.

The Bell monopoly required you to not only use their handsets, you usually had to lease the phone from them.

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