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Overview:
Last month we learned on Slashdot that:
"Some ISPs are resorting to a new tactic to increase revenue: inserting advertisements into web pages requested by their end users. They use a transparent web proxy (such as this one) to insert javascript and/or HTML with the ads into pages returned to users."
Have you wondered how often this is happening? And whether it's happened to you?
The University of Washington security and privacy research group and ICSI have created a measurement infrastructure to help answer these questions. By visiting our web page, you are helping out with our experiment. (Thank you!) In the process, we'll help you figure out if some "party in the middle" (like your ISP) might be modifying your web content in flight. We also plan to share our overall results with the public.
Last month we learned on Slashdot that:
"Some ISPs are resorting to a new tactic to increase revenue: inserting advertisements into web pages requested by their end users. They use a transparent web proxy (such as this one) to insert javascript and/or HTML with the ads into pages returned to users."
Have you wondered how often this is happening? And whether it's happened to you?
The University of Washington security and privacy research group and ICSI have created a measurement infrastructure to help answer these questions. By visiting our web page, you are helping out with our experiment. (Thank you!) In the process, we'll help you figure out if some "party in the middle" (like your ISP) might be modifying your web content in flight. We also plan to share our overall results with the public.
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