Most "fiddling" is by end users & NOT the ISPs in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20362003 en Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:20:39 EDT Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:20:39 EDT Re: Most "fiddling" is by end users & NOT the ISPs http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20364897 swhx7 : Yes, it's less than 1% so far, according to the researchers. That doesn't mean it's not a problem.

If ISPs can get away with altering content on its way to or from the subscribers, it won't stop with ad injection. Eventually they'll be substituting news articles, rewriting emails, and preventing access to information.

It has to be stopped now, because once it becomes a significant source of profit, the pipe owners will apply political influence to prevent anything being done to restrain it.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20364897 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:36:03 EDT Re: Most "fiddling" is by end users & NOT the ISPs http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20363738 anon : Obviously you've never heard of rogers cable internet up in Canada.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20363738 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:21:05 EDT Most "fiddling" is by end users & NOT the ISPs http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20362003 TK Junk Mail : »www.cs.washington.edu/research/s···res.html
The vast majority of changes were caused by proxy software on the user's machine, such as popup blockers and ad blockers.
Out of 50,171 unique IP addresses, only 16 of the 657 "fiddled" pages were by ISPs:

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So, by my calculations, that comes to 16/50171= .03% & not 1%
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