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@nuintari @todb @malwaretech @iagox86 @charlvdwalt @pluralistic I'm pretty sure Juno or NetZero or one of the other cheap/free dialup providers of the early 2000s did this.
@azonenberg @nuintari @todb @malwaretech @iagox86 @charlvdwalt @pluralistic another example I can think of is that as recently as the late 10s, there was still the issue of cell vendors inserting mobile subscribers’ MSISDNs (or similar tracking ref) using HTTP transproxies for all non-HTTPS traffic - I recall this with at least one of the big US networks, and Vodacom in ZA also did something like it. probably many others worldwide if you dig around
@froztbyte @azonenberg @nuintari @todb @malwaretech @iagox86 @charlvdwalt @pluralistic
Nowadays they just have access to your phone directly. Even huge advertisers like Google have access to running their code on most phones without any oversight or user permission.
@azonenberg @nuintari @todb @malwaretech @iagox86 @charlvdwalt @pluralistic BT did this here in the UK with a technology called "phorm". I remember there was a hell of a stink about it and they ditched it after a year or so. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7325451.stm
The irony that this page isn't HTTPS and I can't change it to HTTPS, and searches from the main website drop it down to HTTP as well isn't lost on me...
(I can only guess they have a different host for their older articles that doesn't support SSL).
@http_error_418 @edchivers @azonenberg @nuintari @todb @malwaretech @iagox86 @charlvdwalt @pluralistic About news.bbc.co.uk being available over `https:`?
That should happen relatively soon actually. It's an old tech stack serving it that I am working on a project to replace with a proper managed archive and as part of that we will make news.bbc.co.uk `https:` before it's absorbed into our new web archive on www.bbc.co.uk. We've had a few delays due to a re-org.
@azonenberg @nuintari @todb @malwaretech @iagox86 @charlvdwalt @pluralistic it was a very big thing on public WiFi hotspots. It would break a lot of websites cos the advertising code would just jam new HTML elements in, shitty JavaScript, conflicting versions with what the page authors used... It was a nightmare