[arch-general] Can a ISP modify incoming http traffic to display ads using transparent proxy server ?

[Isaac Dupree]

On 04/02/11 02:45, Partha Chowdhury wrote:
> My ISP is running a transparent proxy server on port 80 as I found out
> from this thread
>
> http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2011-March/019172.html
>
> Now from last two or three days, I keep getting pop-up ads from a
> particular domain on every website i go to - even on text only websites
> ! If i choose another proxy server in firefox , then that does not
> appear on any site.

What happens if you go to an https: site?  The data generally cannot be 
modified between the server and your browser in that case.

Also... your in-browser proxy choice works around the ISP proxy? 
Interesting.

(Is the cable operator trying to be unpopular while making ad-money?)

-Isaac