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To those who are complacently assuming "Well, the ISPs in my country do not do that.": One of the larger ISPs in the United Kingdom does that.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24280536

I've seen no evidence that Virgin Media intercepts UCP/TCP port 53 traffic, however. It just runs rigged proxy DNS servers and farms them out over DHCP.

I've seen several reports that the Virgin Media "click here to disable" mechanism is a placebo that actually does nothing at all, including what that message was a reply to.




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